On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 04:23:39PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > While trying out mutt over the past couple of days I've noticed that > messages sent from Mutt are received by gmail but nothing else, as far as > I can tell. > > I can send an email to a gmail account, so messages are getting off my > computer. If I send an email to a microsoft owa email service, or to the > mutt users list from mutt, for example, the email never makes it. > > I've had a look at mail.log, which doesn't make loads of sense to me, > being new to mutt, but I can see that something is being `blocked using > urbl.hostedmail.com'.
The "rbl" in "urbl" probably refers to a Realtime Blackhole List.
It's a way for email hosts (among others) to check addresses for
properties they don't like such as "known spammer" [sensible] or
"dynamic address from a consumer-grade ISP" [stupid and prejudiced,
IMNSHO].
At home I've had to set up exim (the MTA I run) with a special router
to deal with other's mail hubs that don't want to talk to dirty rotten
consumer dynamic IPs:
# This router routes addresses of paranoid ISPs that assume all dialup users
# are doing something illegitimate.
paranoids:
driver = manualroute
route_data = ${lookup{$domain}partial-lsearch{/etc/exim/paranoids}}
transport = remote_smtp
It uses my ISP's mail hub to hide my unclean IP address from finicky
MTAs but lets me send directly to others, so that at least sometimes I
have useful logs to show whether a message went through.
The simple solution is often to just use your ISP's MTA as a smarthost
for all outgoing mail. I'm picky, so there are times when I don't get
to use simple solutions.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected]
Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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