Bug 26285

Comment 1 Nick Hibma 2001-04-02 10:46:04 UTC

You should be using the mail relay your dial up provider provides.
FreeBSD.org doesn't accept mail from dial up accounts as a anti SPAM
measure.

FYI freebsd.org is one of the first hosts to do this, but a lot of hosts
are following this concept as it reduces SPAM considerably.

Contact your ISP for the hostname of the mail relay.

Cheers,

Nick


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 enderle@mdn.de wrote:

>
> >Number:         26285
> >Category:       misc
> >Synopsis:       Mail Problem with hub.freebsd.org
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       high
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          change-request
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 02 02:40:01 PDT 2001
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Steven Enderle
> >Release:
> >Organization:
> mdn H=FCbner GmbH
> >Environment:
> >Description:
> hub.freebsd.org block emails comming from dialup smtp servers.
>
> This sucks! I can't communicate with the bug tracking system!
>
> <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>: host hub.freebsd.org[216.136.204.18] =
said:
>     554 Service unavailable; [62.158.242.17] blocked using
>     dialups.mail-abuse.org, reason: See <URL:http://mail-abuse.org/dul/>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> >Fix:
>
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:39:04AM -0700, enderle@mdn.de wrote:
> 
> >Number:         26285
> >Category:       misc
> >Synopsis:       Mail Problem with hub.freebsd.org
> >Originator:     Steven Enderle
> >Release:        
> >Organization:
> mdn Hübner GmbH
> >Environment:
> >Description:
> hub.freebsd.org block emails comming from dialup smtp servers.
> 
> This sucks! I can't communicate with the bug tracking system!
> 
> <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>: host hub.freebsd.org[216.136.204.18] said:
>     554 Service unavailable; [62.158.242.17] blocked using
>     dialups.mail-abuse.org, reason: See <URL:http://mail-abuse.org/dul/>

I think you can, if you relay your mail through your ISP's SMTP server.
It should not be listed in the Dial-ups' List.. if it is, then your ISP
has a serious problem :)

There might be an issue with your ISP refusing relaying, but I think it
should be possible for you to either contact them and make them allow
relaying for their customers, or send out messages specifying your e-mail
address at the ISP in the envelope sender.  In that case, the ISP will
have to let the mail through, since it is indistinguishable from a client's
connection to their SMTP server for outbound mail.

Setting the envelope sender in outgoing PR's is now possible by tweaking
the MAIL_AGENT variable; I personally have an alias for:

env MAIL_AGENT='/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -froam@orbitel.bg' /usr/bin/send-pr

I think that you reconfiguring your mail setup would be a much easier and
painless way to go than making hub accept spam from all the cable modem
users in the US (no offense intended, but a lot of spam *does* come in
that way, which was, I believe, the primary purpose for setting up
the Dial-ups' List in the first place :).

G'luck,
Peter

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What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?

Comment 3 bill fumerola 2001-04-03 03:22:57 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Submitted has been instructed on how to properly configure his mailer.