Re: [ILUG] Mail problems...

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Fri 27 Aug 1999 - 15:24:42 IST


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 valen at domain tuatha.org wrote:
>
> I have no idea. I've changed a few (like use_domain etc). But it doesn't
> seem to matter. I think that broken mailers expect to be able to do a
> hostname lookup on the machine that sent the thing. Seeing as my machine
> gets it's IP address via DHCP, that's not going to happen...
It's sendmail that's blocking it, on the assumption that it's spam. We
have the same problem with a few other sites (etrade auto mails and
stuff), but it does seem to block a few spams, so I'm going to leave it
in. Interesting that the sender domain (minbari.dell.com) doesn't exist!

L.
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Liam Bedford System Administrator
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt St. 01-4170153
18, Edenbrook Manor, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 01-4950344



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