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OK, |
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Here's how this works. |
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Many (nearly all) primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward |
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your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP |
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(this means your IP is a client IP on the ISPs net). |
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Well, one day, many moons ago a bunch of very intelligent folks got |
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together and figured that letting people run their own mailservers was a |
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goot way to propagate spam. So they put together a database of (among |
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other things) ISP-Customer IPs. |
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This is where it gets good. You see, now that you are part of the crowd, |
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ALL of those SMTP servers on the net will see your server as an email |
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source and drop your stuff on the floor. Pretty cool huh? |
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Remember kiddies - RTFM |
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On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 18:47 -0700, Erik Westenbroek wrote: |
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> no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't |
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> want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router |
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> and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was |
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> right, because I don't really know how CIDR works. I just fired up |
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> mutt from my gentoo box, tried to send an email, and postfix gave me a |
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> bunch of connection timed out to smtp.freeshell.org crap. I can |
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> recieve email just fine, I'll email root@××××××××××××××××××××.org, and |
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> I log in and go into mutt and voila it is there, but I can't send |
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> anything. |
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> |
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> On 4/25/06, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > On 4/25/06 8:28 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <mistereastenstream@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > >> From both localhost and my SDF account I get the expected 220 |
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> > > casusbelli.homelinux.org ESMTP Postfix. I haven't emerged iptables |
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> > > yet, but I'm behind a router that has a firewall installed. I'll |
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> > > install iptables later for ssh tarpitting, but for right now I'm doing |
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> > > without it. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I |
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> > > don't know if how I set hostname and domainname has anything to do |
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> > > with it. in /etc/conf.d/hostname, the hostname is set to casusbelli, |
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> > > and in /etc/conf.d/domainname, the domainname is set to osen, and I |
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> > > have /etc/hosts set accordingly. But I don't know what to set |
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> > > myhostname and mydomain to in /etc/postfix/main.cf, I tried casusbelli |
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> > > and osen respectivly, and then casusbelli and homelinux.org |
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> > > respectivly, and neither works. It is also interesting to note that |
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> > > the domainname of my router is not osen, but gateway.2wire.net. How |
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> > > should I set these values or are they fine? My net is set up that the |
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> > > router is at 192.168.1.254, casusbelli at 192.168.1.65, and the |
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> > > windows computer on the netwok is 192.168.1.64, so in main.cf, |
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> > > mynetworks is set to 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8, is this correct? |
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> > > |
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> > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Okay, so you are attempting to send the email from a windows box, through |
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> > the gentoo box to your isp email account? Is that correct? What happens if |
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> > you do mail -s test youremail@××××××.whatever from the gentoo box. Does the |
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> > mail go? Again, do the tail -f on the log. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> > |
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> > |
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> -- |
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> Erik |
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