sandip thanks for your help, regarding how to get myself un-blacklisted from spam lists, because all dynamic IP's of vsnl are reported to spamblock blacklists, effectively shutting me out from sending email. your suggestion (to use a smarthost) was as follows (this is applicable to exim users also)
> Check the sendmail mc page at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/ > Use something like: > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:fire.wall.com') > in sendmail.mc before regenerating the sendmail.cf file but you see the only smtp server i know is the vsnl one. and it won't accept email unless the from header is vsnl.com or vsnl.net (see below). so this is forcing me to buy third party smtp service. (as you have said yourself below). so basically i am stuck. i could try and hunt for free smtp service on the net - but i fear it will be terribly slow (i am a dialup user as it is). i fully endorse your view below (and i hope linux-user group delhi and other chapters take this up with vsnl.) for details on DUL (dynamic user lists) referred below, and why they are a bad idea do lookup http://bucksch.com./1/opinion/dul/ or also see http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/maps-dul-is-wrong.html basically DUL's are "nothing more than a harmful prejudice". sandip wrote -- >> begin quote ************************************************************************ I publically discourage everybody from using VSNL( now TATA-Indicom) ISP accounts. They have inherited the monopolistic attitude of the Raj days. On one hand they dont allow their own subscribers to relay mail which do not have a vsnl.com/vsnl.net domain in the From: address. On the other hand they have voluntarily submitted all their dialup IPs to DUL. *Both* of these constraints make them a very unusable ISP forcing people to do either direct-to-mx mailing(which is stringly discouraged) or to incur additional charge for buying 3rd party SMTP services. Boycott VSNL/Tata-Indicom!!!! **************************************************************************** << end quote fully agree. ajit. (starved of smtp). _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
