On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:43 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > 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. Slightly OT, but I just use Gmail for SMTP too. That way I get an indexed copy of everything I send without any extra work (of course, so does Google ...) poc
