[CentOS] Sendmail failing on home machine
Christopher Chan
christopher at ias.com.hk
Wed Nov 7 08:08:27 UTC 2007
John R Pierce wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>> configure your sendmail to use your ISP's mail server as a 'smarthost'.
>>>
>>
>> How is that going to help the dest mta verify his address?
>
> it won't have to. his ISP will accept mail from its own customer's
> IP address, same as if they were end user mail clients, and it will
> relay for him. the destination MTA will presumably accept mail from
> his ISP's mail server, unless they are a known spammer.
>
The dest mta is most probably doing a blank sender address verify on all
emails. Although running a mail server on a dynamic ip is discouraged
and use of the ISP's relay box is encouraged, I doubt that in this case
that it will make any difference unless the dest mta has the ISP's ip(s)
whitelisted which I doubt every much. The solution is to use a
verifiable returnpath with bonus points for setting DS.
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