Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: > >> This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or >> whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account >> in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to >> list.gentoo.org changed. >> >> I hadn't posted to this for quite a while until recently. When I did so >> again a few days ago, the message hung up in my outgoing queue and I got >> this message in the log: >> >> May 7 16:09:56 texada postfix/smtp[23864]: 7D46150B55: >> to=<gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>, >> relay=lists.gentoo.org[140.105.134.102], delay=15242, status=deferred >> (host lists.gentoo.org[140.105.134.102] said: 421 4.4.1 collect: read >> timeout on connection from m198-163.dsl.rawbw.com, >> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (in reply to end of DATA command)) >> > Many MTAs refuse to relay messages from dial-up or DSL connections - and > rightly so. Just use your ISP's SMTP server as a smarthost. > I should certainly expect that for a relay, in which I address a message to a name not only the MX, but does a mailing list count as a relay? Certainly this is the only mailing list I've encountered to-date with such a restriction, and I participate in several. And while I totally get this for dial-up, my DSL has a static IP - I've had this number longer than many companies in this post-dot-bomb world.
Indeed I can use my ISP as a smarthost, and in fact am currently doing so out of necessity. It just bothers me. Privacy is not enhanced by having my mail sitting on servers neither I nor the recipient control, and while I don't want any particular privacy for messages to this list, sending all my mail through the smarthost seems wrong. Per-destination smarthost? Blech. :) I apologise if I sound grumpy about this issue, and do thank you for the response. glen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list