Re: Getting free ISPs to work
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:53:37AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>
> --- Chris Gray <cgray@nowonder.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:48:16AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> > >
> > > As for Freewwweb, STAY AWAY. They have no clue how to run a SMTP
> > > server. I get ALL of my mail bounced back to me because they
> > don't
> > > have a record of valid dial-up IP assignments. (e.g. This
> > message was
> > > cut and pasted from a bounce and re-composed online.)
> >
> > Indeed. The way I work it is to have a real ISP which doesn't drop
> > packets going to port 25 and have a real mail account somewhere
> > other than
> > freewwweb. Then I use my freewwweb account(s) for general surfing
> > and
> > my real ISP for sending mail. Since my real ISP is free for 12
> > hours a
> > month, I basically have free dial-up internet service with all the
> > amenities. Good luck.
>
> I use exim, and it's aggravatingly transparent. If I did dial up
> another provider, it would trand sieze the opportunity to mail
> anythng in the queue and, of course, get bounced as relaying.
I use Freewwweb and my mail didn't get bounced, but the smtp
connections timed out. I had to disable MTU path discovery with
sysctl as per the postfix documentation.
Apparently there is a misconfigured server somewhere between me and
them. I told them about it and got no reply. I have not yet tried
re-enabling MTU path discovery to see if they did anything.
BTW, the postfix docs said that disabling MTU path discovery was a
workaround (a misconfigured server is the real problem) and that by
disabling it, all would suffer. How would "all" "suffer"?
>
> It's tempting me to switch to another MTA, I tell ya.
>
> Everyone on the debian-user list should send Freewwweb a mail message
> saying they heard how awful their support is, and they are another
> lost customer. Heh heh... distributed spamming... <slap on back of
> hand>
>
> I need to find one of those 12 hour freebie accounts.
>
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Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>
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