On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > > > In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a > > message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like > > `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? > > > > Adam Klein > > > > Well, since this problem apparently just came up, it's probably not > something you did but rather something your ISP did. Tell me, is the > visible name as defined in your /etc/smail/config file a name that > corresponds to your machine in the DNS? That is, if your ISP were to do > nslookup <visible_name> > would they get your machine's IP address? > If your visible name is not something that directly corresponds to your IP > address, then your ISP may be doing some kind of weird anti-spam thing > which prevents smail from sending outgoing mail. > > I use ppp, and so have a dynamic IP address. I still manage to set my > visible_name so that it looks ok from the outside, though - see > http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html for for I do it. > > I'm already using the smail setup described on your page, and it was working great, until a few days ago. Thanks. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
