Re: My email is rejected by some sites
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:32:10 -0500, Antonio Rodr wrote:
> I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are
> rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason provided, it seems
> that some have blocked the ips in my block, or that they are
> blocking all dinamic ips. Some isps are accepting my emails without
> problems. At some point I thought it might be due to having
> somewhere in the email the text: "Sender: tony@hpd". I have tried
> to tweak muttrc in all possible ways known to me, but it keeps
> appearing. In the headers all is ok, though. So probably the phrase
> is inserted by exim.4 (a sid machine). So, if it is the case, how
> do I change the settings to reflect the change? The hostname is
> properly configured, that is, is hpd.top-domain-name.org I would
> like to be able to send emails directly from my machine, w/o having
> to use the account provided by my isp, or the hosting company that
> hosts my top-domain-name. This is probably my last step before
> dumping my hosting company services, being able to have a regular
> email server in my machine, since my website is extremely simple,
> mostly as a gathering place for friends and family, no commercial
> at all. Any advices? Thanks in advance.
This usually happens when there is no reverse DNS setup for your IP address...
Do a little test for it on www.samspade.org. Most ISPs nowadays don't provide
reverse DNS on their addresses. It's their problem to fix it.
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