* Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-06 05:09:29]: > Hello > > If I configure my exim on my laptop according to what's written in the > comments, > I cannot send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The comment says that primary_hostname should be "your host's canonical name > [...] the fully qualified "official" name of your host". Well my laptop is > called kestrel and my domain is twibright.com. So I put > kestrel.twibright.com there. > > But misc@openbsd.org says rejected since sender verify failed. The "from" > header is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the "from:" header to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No wonder it failed. My laptop doesn't have any externally valid IP address > so I didn't make any DNS record for it. misc apparently tries to lookup > kestrel.twibright.com and fails. > > So I tried to put "twibright.com" there but now I cannot send post to my > brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now exim thinks [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for > him (even if local_comains are set just to @ : localhost) and says > "unknown user". -t mx for twibright.com is twin.jikos.cz. > > So what should I put there? Or should I put some random bullshit like > 195.195.195.195 into the kestrel.twibright.com so that misc@ is satisfied? > > Is there a RFC saying that the "from" header after stripping the @ and before > must succeed in DNS lookup? > > Do I violate any RFC if I put random garbage into DNS to satisfy paranoid > hosts like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > All these "anti-spam" policies... They just make it almost impossible for > normal people to send e-mail reliably, while they have no visible effect > on the spam tsunami... I still get hundreds of spams daily. They turn the > MTA configuration task from a fifteen puzzle into a sixteen puzzle. > > CL< >
To get to misc: Spoof your envelope header (I use sendmail -f via mutt) and relay your mail through your ISP's mail servers. This avoids FQDN and dynamic IP issues for me. -- Travers Buda
