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Re: [cobalt-developers] SMTP reverse



Hi Mike,

If I reword this question, I may get a response.

You should wait a couple of hours/days first. Plus, this is not a developer related question. ;-)

What is happening is that
my RAQ4 is not a registered DNS server.

It doesn't have to be.

When mail gets sent from a website
on the RAQ, it goes out as being from username@xxxxxxxxxxx  With username
being the siteadmin name, and myraq4 being the hostname.domainname settings
of my server.

Same happens to me. Mail from a php/cgi script that itself does not set a "From: " header, goes out as httpd@xxxxxxxxxxxx Of course, people reply to that. So I told myself to go pick up e-mail for that address and be nice to 'em. ;-) End of off-topic.

When I try to send out mail to networks that use reverse DNS
to stop spamming, I get rejected, as the server is not a registered DNS
server.  Any way around this?  Thanks everyone.

Yes, definitely. Get in touch with the company that does your colo and/or DNS. Tell them you want a reverse address on your host(s) that matches your setup. Any ISP that does not set up a reverse for *every* IP in their network is an *sshole. Unfortunately, the world seems full of *ssholes. End of rant. ;-)

To check if your reverse works, get on some *nix box and type "host [my.ip.add.ress]".

Good luck... Nico