Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 01:08:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such thing as a stupid question :) Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? And the other way round ? Sorry, couldn't resist. Serious ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain. : The HELO supposedly tells them who I am. : : Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org : then smail (with some switches on)

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Michael == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Where can I get/read/find/download/whatever the RFC's? package=RFC # comment=Mirror the Internet Requests For Comment # # specify remote host and directory site=ds.internic.net

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: [ snip ] :My sincere apologies for an absolutely STUPID question, But I have :absolutely NO idea. No such thing as a stupid question :) :Where can I get/read/find/download/whatever the RFC's? Install the package doc-rfc, if you want them

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread servis
On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such thing as a stupid question :) Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? Sorry, couldn't resist. Brian -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : No such thing as a stupid question :) : :Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? Yikes!! I take it all back :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone:

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain. : The HELO supposedly tells them who I am. : : Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org : then smail (with some switches on) will test if the name and the IP# of the : originating

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : Well, OK, you might call them misconfigured. But read this quote from : rfc1985: [...] there is no documented stipulation for checking the : authenticity of the remote host name, as given in the HELO or EHLO command. : : I cannot find any

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-09 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use a smarthost, then the mail that they send for you is not rejected, as their HELO [domain] is valid, it can be found on the DNS. whereas mine is not. is this right? In my limited experience, mail servers always accept HELO from non-existent domains. I

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: I have one [a valid hostname]. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. Michael Beattie writes: I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS? Yes. Okay... True, but I meant in the situation that

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-06 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: If you use a smarthost, then the mail that they send for you is not rejected, as their HELO [domain] is valid, it can be found on the DNS. whereas mine is not. is this right? In my limited experience, mail servers always accept HELO from non-existent domains. I find

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Beattie writes: What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,... I may try that. ...

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-04 Thread john
I wrote: I have one [a valid hostname]. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. Michael Beattie writes: I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS? Yes. hehe not my ISP, they are so slack that billing sometimes get completly screwed up... BrightNet

smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread Michael Beattie
Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and it's configuration. Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and it's configuration. Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are peoples

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,... I may try that. ... versus having visible_name set to your ISP's