On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> 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. > > > -- > Fedora 11 > (www.pembo13.com) > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > You can use sendmail with your ISP's SMTP servers too by making sendmail a smart relay. I use this snippet with new installs to achieve it: { SMTP_SERVER=mail.optonline.net DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S) sed -i.$DATE -e 's/^DS.*/DS'$SMTP_SERVER'/' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf diff /etc/mail/sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.$DATE service sendmail restart } Yes, that is modifying sendmail.cf directly (slaps wrist with a feather boa) but its the only config change I ever make, so it works for me :)
