Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link

From: Florent Thoumie (flz_at_xbsd.org)
Date: 03/28/05

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To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>

    Danny Pansters a écrit :
    > Hi all,
    >
    > Just migrated all my stuff to a new machine and having troubles sending any
    > mail to the freebsd lists and inparticular with send-pr. I have a cable modem
    > connected to my gateway which connects to a gbit switch through which the
    > other pcs connect. The cable provider uses dhcp. I get my IP ok and my
    > hostname (sent through dhclient also, otherwise logging on doesn't work) is
    > danny@cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl. I have set up pf to do nat and filtering.
    > It's not a firewall problem.
    >
    > I'm having problems getting sendmail (from my desktp -- a client behind the
    > gateway) to be eligible to send mail to the freebsd servers, particularly
    > send-pr.
    >
    > I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did make, but now
    > my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... its desktop.homenet, a
    > local name.
    >
    > How do I solve this?
    >
    > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spammer being
    > able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...)

            You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp
            server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't
            have a FQDN hostname. 

    -- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@xbsd.org
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