[ILUG] Open mail relays.

[Dave Airlie]

however your dialup IP may be in ORBS or similiar and hence a lot of
people will reject your mail ...

reconfigure your smarthost on each dialup and kick sendmail..

Dave.


On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:

> If you're depending on open-relays (why? do you change ISP every few
> minutes?) then you're probably better off letting Sendmail on your local
> server deliver directly instead of using a Smart Host. It takes longer
> but at least you can depend on that being up and alive.
>
> Donncha.
>
> David Cathcart wrote:
> >
> > Hi, either my sendmail installation had backflipped or eircom just closed their smtp server from non eircom addresses?
> > Did they do this? If they did does anyone know another open mail relay thats got a deacent connection, preferably in
> > ireland. This is the kind of stuff that becomes a pain in the hole when you're not actually "paying" a subscribtion but
> > rather living on the scraps.
> >
>
>

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