| Broadband users will always have difficulty sending email out to the internet.
Either the ISP is blocking port 25 outbound - in which case it wont work at all, or your email does get delivered, but is blocked as spam since you are coming from a known dynamic IP used for broadband customers.
The DUL blacklists are very widely used, and are a staple in the war against spam since legitimate email should not be originated from an MTA on a residential broadband connection. Some orgs are more aggressive then others with their blocking tactics for DUL email origination.
The solution is simple, use the SMTP relay server of your ISP (Comcast, Verizon DSL, CavTel, etc.,.). That SMTP server has been designed to accept mail from all customers, and will then relay the message out to the internet - no longer suffering DUL spam scores, etc.,.
In sendmail, it is set as the "Smart Host" relay option in sendmail.cf. In Debian with exim it is the dc_smarthost var.
-John
On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Brent Saner wrote: i better let someone else tackle this. just yesterday i posted asking for help setting up mailstuffs. i'm sure one of the mail gurus in here will help you much better than i can. :) (check the archives for my post, " unraveling the arcane art of mailservers?" and the responses i got. lots of good resources)
On 10/17/07, Marty O'Brien <mobrien118@ieee.org> wrote: Brent,
When I send to Yahoo! it goes to junk, but when I send to hotmail or my forwarder (ieee.org, which I have forward my mail to my gmail account) it disapears.
I don't know if I get a bounce notice because the "from" email address that the server is sending from is (my linux username)@(my server name).(my domain name) which is not valid because I am only using postfix in the default setup and don't have a pop3 or IMAP server running, and I am extremely novice with postfix/sendmail. Do you know if there is a way to send an email with a different from or reply-to address, and if so, will that help?
Thanks, and I'm sorry if I am totally clueless on this.
--Marty
On 10/17/07, Brent Saner < brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:welcome, marty!
when you try to send to an address other than the gmail one (say, a yahoo) does it show up in the junkmail receptacle? do you receive a bounce notice?
Hello PLUG!
I have lived in Philadelphia (Actually Wyncote) for 12 months and I have been subscribing to this mail-list for 8 months now and reading it whenever I get a chance. Well, I am finally ready to write something (for some help!). So, without further ado:
I have a linux box with Xandros 4.0 installed (A Debian based distro, for those unfamiliar) which comes with a default installation of "postfix".
What works:
Sending an email to mobrien118@gmail.com using the "mail" command line application.
What doesn't work:
Sending an email just about anywhere else.
So, I believe I need to relay my mail through a trusted server somewhere (maybe a Comcast SMTP server) so that POP and IMAP servers won't simply discard it like yesterday's news. Can someone help me make this work? I also want PHP to be able to send mail, although I think this may already be working since I edited php.ini. There is only one line that I think needs editing there, anyway.
I have to warn you all that I am just barely into "Intermediate user" status in Linux.
Surely someone on this group is doing this (sending mail over Comcast's lines).
Thanks in advance. I am looking forward to becoming more active in this community!
--Marty O'Brien
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