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Re: off-topic: abuse@zipcode.atg.aol.com resolver problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfogarty)
Tue Dec 1 21:29:31 1998

Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:58:23 -0500
From: cfogarty <cfogarty@imaginae.com>
Reply-To: cfogarty@imaginae.com
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Brent,

Can you use sendmail to refuse incoming mail from specified ip# or host
names?


Brent Sims wrote:

>         You might be able to get away with telling sendmail to masquerade
> as either your's or your ISP's domain. But you can still have some
> problems if you changed your machine name - I've got a lot of AOL
> subscribers on a mailing list and I had a hard time figuring things out
> but now that I have all my mail gets past all the spam filters. My
> sendmail masquerades as my ISP, my email clients use my domain name
> instead of the machine name, and my machine is named localhost...
>
>         Brent
>
> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Fred Lenk RHL Linux account wrote:
>
> ->I keep getting "sender domain must resolve" error in the
> ->maillog when an incoming message hits a linux email server.
>
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