On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >>>> I always use (and always have used) KMail, >>> and I don't see anything odd in my settings. >>> I use the default sendmail for sending email, >>> which could conceivably be the cause of the problem. >>> >>> I wonder if anyone has come across this, >>> and can offer an expanation and if possible a solution? > >> But looking at the raw email, you seem to be sending the emails: >> >> your computer > gmane > target mailing list. >> >> Since neither your computer or gmane is eircom.net, it's fairly >> logical to assume that you aren't really the sender of the email, and >> is therefore spam. >> >> You want to use the SMTP servers provided by eircom.net to send your >> email. So: >> >> your computer > eircom.net SMTP > target mailing list. > > Thanks very much for all the responses, and the advice, > especially the above. > > I see that I had > MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(gayleard.com)dnl > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc on my laptop, > that being the name of my home web-server. > I guess I must have set this at some point, > perhaps when I had ideas above my station. > > I've changed this to > MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(eircom.net)dnl > that being the name of my ISP. > Hopefully this will assuage the spam thought-police. That at least helps. Ideally you would just use your ISPs SMTP servers though, instead of your own sendmail. -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)
