Help - where to report posting problem

Dick Davies rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Tue Apr 20 08:52:57 PDT 2004


* Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <kdk at daleco.biz> [0428 15:28]:
> Dick Davies wrote:
> 
> >* Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> [0430 12:30]:
> > 
> >
> >>Here's your answer.  This means that the SMTP server that you
> >>use as a relay is poorly configured.  There is a FAQ entry:
> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES

> >You shouldn't be dumping mails based on the contents of HELO though, should
> >you?

> If I understand correctly, it's not the content of HELO per se,
> it is the fact that the contents of HELO could not be resolved
> to an IP address.

Sorry, I missed the link above. If that's policy, I guess you
have to live with it.
 
> That's relatively lightweight ... for example, if you connect to
> an AOL MX server (although who really cares to? :-D), you're
> refused if they can't resolve HELO to a PTR record ....

AOL have mail? oh, that's right, I get a few hundred a day
from them, usually their Nigerian users.... :)

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