Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 September 2009 02:16:23 Stroller wrote: Why hasn't greylisting been mentioned? I greylist and it ends up blocking at least 99% of spam in my experience. There are some disadvantages to greylisting mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting#Disadvantages I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Grant
Every other solution out there has this one little problem that people seem to ignore. Per RFC, if you accept the connection and the mail, you will deliver it. That's what it says. It also says this since days long before spam problems, but still. We all conveniently ignore this if we are

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Grant
When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Stroller
On 6 Sep 2009, at 00:52, Grant wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Stroller
On 6 Sep 2009, at 00:05, Grant wrote: ... The remainder of those you're inefficiently filtering are Linux enthusiasts running Postfix on their Gentoo boxes. Yeah, I was planning on setting up postfix on my home Gentoo box too. I guess I could relay through my ISP to avoid delivery problems

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 Sep 2009, at 22:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:51:04 Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 September 2009 17:23:15 Stroller wrote: You may be in a slightly exceptional position in that the bandwidth cost - of syncing to Spamhaus and the additional DNS lookups - may be prohibitive. UCLA are not. Whatever the proportion of legitimate mail this policy rejects, this

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Sep 2009, at 21:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 17:23:15 Stroller wrote: ... Every other solution out there has this one little problem that people seem to ignore. Per RFC, if you accept the connection and the mail, you will deliver it. That's what it says. It

[gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Grant
When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Stroller
Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Grant wrote: When I try to send an email to a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Stroller
Ooops... please ignore. I just noticed you said from my hosted server. You can still try complaining to them. Good luck!! Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:51, Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:51:04 Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. ucla.edu have the perfect policy.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:45:46 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: ... Does anyone know how to fix this? If you have an open mail relay server, you can use