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Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)



On 2004-04-17, Alain penned:
> I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am
> connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address.
>
> I am using my server and mailer  to send result from forms submission
> to several external addresses.  Recently several ISP have started to
> reject my email messages.
>
> Looking to the Exim main log, it seems two common reasons are:
>
>  'access denied; your IP is listed by rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org.' Or
>  'Your server 8.155-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.155.8] is liste d
>  by the blacklist dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. Please contact your
>  Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider.
>  (http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/DUL-FAQ .html)'
>
> I also have error messages specifying that my IP address is not a
> fixed one and due to that the message is rejected.
>
> I contacted my ISP to ask him to remove the block of ip addresses from
> the blacklist server but it does not seem to progress well.
>
> I suppose I should be able to resolve this issue by a proper Exim
> configuration. As I am able to send email messages from another PC
> using Outlook Express without having such a problem, I suppose it is
> 'only' a question to correctly configure the mailer on my server?
>
> Well, I hope someone will be able to help me.
>

I hear that you can use the 'smarthost' directive to tell your server to
route mail through your ISP's server.

-- 
monique



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