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Ken Moffat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm floundering in the dark here, so I thought I'd ask the list
> (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places). Since the end of last year
> I've gradually lost the ability to post on many mailing lists. The
> latest is the clfs lists, which is kind of awkward. To look at it
> another way, I can only post to LFS lists!
>
> Information received (thanks, Jeremy) says that Envelope-From is
> screwed up - I'm generating From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's
> no longer adequate for passing the spamtraps.
>
> I have what ought to be a not-too-uncommon setup - a broadband
> connection, outgoing mail from one box (the server), and other boxes
> (desktop machines) sending mail to the server about backups, log
> rotation, smartd monitoring, etc.
>
> At the moment I'm using postfix-2.2.9 on the server (just upgraded
> it an hour or so ago), with sender_canonical and smtp_generic_maps.
> I also tried envelope_from_address and use_envelope_from in .muttrc.
>
> I suspect these are doing all they're supposed to (I claim to be
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but maybe they don't address the real problem -
> my internet IP is appearing in the headers as localhost.localdomain.
>
> So, apart from cursing the spammers who've forced admins to tighten
> up what mail is acceptable, what should I do ? Until my replies
> stopped getting through, I was able to ssh to my server from
> whichever machine was the desktop-du-jour (or from the laptop), and
> deal with my mail. I can see that I could run e.g. kmail on
> a desktop talking directly to my isp's smtp server, but that isn't
> very helpful - sent mail would be on the box I happened to be using
> when I sent it, incoming mail would go to wherever fetchmail was
> running. That isn't manageable.
>
> Any suggestions, please ?
>
> Ken
Hi Ken,
I have two different mail accounts. One on my ISP which some vendors I
have dealt with have but mostly collects the SPAM you are talking about
and the other is my personal domain which this mail came from. If I use
the ISP account the mail from line gets the ISP address. If I use this
account the from line has my personal domain address. My registration on
your servers was made from this address. If I send mail to the list from
my ISP account the mail goes into a holding tank for someone to review
and approve before it gets posted. That can take a couple of days
sometimes. I think your mail server has to be set up with the domain
name that you are registered with on the lists. That should be as simple
as setting up your network properly. There was a thread recently where
someone else was having the same problem. His resolution was not what I
thought I did to set mine up but it worked for him. Setting up the hosts
file with the FQDN as the first name followed by any aliases you want
and a domain line in resolve.conf I thought should take care of it but
the recent thread included manually setting the dnsdomainname manually
in the startup scripts if I remember correctly. Hope this helps.
Arnie
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