Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-14 Thread NetOpsCenter
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 PM, jekillen wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the moment you appear to have the following

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, you can

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 PM, jekillen wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the moment you appear to have the following reverse DNS for the

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
of SPF (Sender Policy Framewokr) would immediately identify it as a spoof, and will be blocked. To learn more about this system, see http://www.openspf.org/ if the same machine is for sending and receiving mail simply putting IN TXT v=spf1 mx -all is OK and enough

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g.

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:01 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: of SPF (Sender Policy Framewokr) would immediately identify it as a spoof, and will be blocked. To learn more about this system, see http://www.openspf.org/ if the same machine is for sending and receiving mail simply putting IN TXT

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread jekillen
On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:27 PM, jekillen wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise [don't run your own direct to MX mail server] apply if you have static ip service and are running web servers from these

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, RW wrote: The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, you can stay off the dynamic lists. It

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Ed Zwart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use freebsd on an older computer in my home network to run a webserver, a few web apps (bugzilla, tikiwiki), and samba. I just installed postfix via the ports collection so I can use the mail functionality of bugzilla. Bugzilla does its part correctly;

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 11 March 2007 10:45, Ed Zwart wrote: I use freebsd on an older computer in my home network to run a webserver, a few web apps (bugzilla, tikiwiki), and samba. I just installed postfix via the ports collection so I can use the mail functionality of bugzilla. Bugzilla does its part

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Ed Zwart wrote: I own my_domain.com. I've paid a hoster for the last couple years, but that's ending in a week or so. Meanwhile, I've used dyndns to point foo.homedns.org to my IP. I am going to add my voice to those suggesting that you use

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread jekillen
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Ed Zwart wrote: I own my_domain.com. I've paid a hoster for the last couple years, but that's ending in a week or so. Meanwhile, I've used dyndns to point foo.homedns.org to my IP. If

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:27 PM, jekillen wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise [don't run your own direct to MX mail server] apply if you have static ip service and are running web servers from these addresses, with the ISP's blessing? (meaning you also

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Zwart
Thanks Bill, Josh and Jeffrey for answering my question. It was my ISP. (So easy, I wish I had thought of that. I somehow managed to figure out they were blocking 80 a month or so ago.) I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I set them to be mine, and it worked,

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ed Zwart wrote: I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I set them to be mine, and it worked, and then for kicks, set it to google.com, and that worked too. I looked at the headers, and can see that the source can

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Zwart
Jeffrey, what you've suggested is what I've done. Thanks for the explanation! e. On 3/11/07, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ed Zwart wrote: I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I set them to be