Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?
On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:
>
> > On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> > But many mail servers will not accept mail from "made up" domains because
> > spammers tend to "make up" domain names too!
>
> Oh boy... So what do you think I should do? Stuff sympatico.ca instead
> of my local domain name and genkin instead of my local user name in
> the exim configuration file? That would completely screw up the local
> mail system then, right?
Well, you could have a look at www.dhs.org (who took over many of the old
monolith.org domains) and get a hostname in their DNS service.
OR, you can find someone that HAS a domain already and has control over
the DNS for that domain and will give you a hostname out of their domain
and act as MX host for your domain. You would then collect your email from
their machine. There is no reason you HAVE to use your ISP for email.
>
> I run fetchmail as root, and it uses local delivery system to
> distribute the mail between the users. Or should I change my user name
> too to adjust to my internet email address? Sounds like overkill.
You probably can not simply call your system sympatico.com because the IP
address will not match the hostname. Have a look at dhs.org
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