On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 15:49 -0600, Jeremy Sandberg wrote: > > I had a question about sending email with a personal smtp server. The > > question being thus: I try to send email to my byu address as a test(and > > other places like hotmail) and it automatically rejects me as spam. Is > > there anyway around this problem? > > If you're running the server from an Internet connection at home, you're > going to need to use a smart host. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host > > If you're running on a hosting service, make sure you have proper A, PTR > and MX records. > > Depending on your ISP, you might be blacklisted. Good luck with that.
Welcome to the wonderful Internet where thanks to SPAM you cannot even run your own mail server. More and more I find myself using my gmail account because mail from my personal server often gets rejected :( I did a smart host once. I set up exim to ssh to cs mail server and then send mails from there. Or something like that. It was kind of a pain to set up, and I didn't like having to rely on someone else's mail server, but it worked pretty good at the time. Phillip -- Phillip Hellewell <phillip AT hellewell.homeip.net> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
