Mithun Bhattacharya rearranged electrons thusly:
> I used to face the same problem when I was trying to use a dial up
> connection to serve 15 ppl :). The combined browsing used to choke the
> bandwidth. What I would suggest you do is to configure sendmail to
> deliver to your ISP's mail server instead of doing a direct delivery.
http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html for more - but mail is the least of your
worries, man ...
> Ofcourse it depends a lot on who your ISP is. When I was using it last
> year Mantra's mail server used to take ages to actually deliver the
Mantra runs an old, broken version of netscape messaging server. Satyam runs
NPlex - which is pretty good.
> Please note rediff.com does a reverse lookup of your ip address before
> accepting emails. You better have a FQDN even for your dial up account
> before you send emails to rediff.com . I personally used to have lots of
If you use your ISP's smtp server as a smarthost, it's up to your ISP -
whether they have rDNS or not, that is. However, I doubt if Rediff does this
(blocking mails from sites with no rDNS). Could you post a log entry or two
showing this? [just to compare notes]?
-s
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