On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:39:32AM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > I use postfix as my mail gateway. Recently the technion, apparently, decided > > to close their mail system to mail gateway who have fully qualified > > host names. > > You mean "who do nothave...", I assume? > > > I have a regular adsl connection at 012. Is there a way for me to have > > a "fully qualified" host name? i.e.: from some back resolving at my isp, > > or dyndns, though I prefer not to start with those. > > Yes, you need to ask your ISP for backresolving, and you need to make > sure the mail comes from whatever your ISP backresolves you as. The > easiest way to do this is get a static IP, a domain and then request > your ISP to resolve your IP to that domain name.
Every ISP should have back-resolving for every address it provides. Be that for the purpose of accountability. A satic IP is not needed for that. > > Another option is to tell your postifx to use your ISP's mail server > for all outgoing mail. That should solve your Technion problems, but > is not what you asked. > Recall that some mail admins have a strange habit of denying mail from "dial-up" users. Whatever your opinion about that habit may be, it remains a fact. I don't remember if the Technion is not one of them. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
