Slightly OT: Greylisting another take
Alexander Volovics
awol at home.nl
Fri Feb 18 16:15:29 UTC 2005
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:46:25PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Alexander Volovics wrote:
> >>Ah, there were spammers on @home which resulted in whole sale black
> >>listing. Now that does happen. Also a lot of email admins will block
> >>dynamic IP address ranges. If you happen to be trying to run an email
> >>server from a dynamic IP address (even if your assigned address has not
> >>changed in years) a large part of the Internet will not accept SMTP
> >>connections from you. In that case you just need to route your email
> >>through your ISPs SMTP servers. Not much else you can do about that.
> >The problem is I *am* routing my email through my ISPs SMTP server!
> No, you're not. At least you're sending mail to this mailing list
> directly from your own machine (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl
> [84.30.68.3]) to Red Hat's MX hosts, not via any smarthost:
> Received: from cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl
> [84.30.68.3])
> by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1IFgvvu021330
> for <fedora-list at redhat.com>; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:42:57 -0500
> Received: by af.ever.maas (Postfix, from userid 500)
> id C7446140FEB; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:46:37 +0100 (CET)
Yes, I am!
This is probably due to my postfix main.cf setup which contains
the line: "smtp_helo_name = cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl"
I did this to keep all traces of my home network out of the headers.
Maybe I should rethink this.
Alexander
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