Re: tlug: List Admin: GOL users

[Jim Tittsler <jwt@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jim Tittsler <jwt@example.com>
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On Fri, May 16, 1997 at 10:23:25AM +0900, Craig Oda wrote:
> I'm getting bounced messages for all TLUG mail destined for
> members on GOL.  One of the members had a mail box full message
> so I unsubscribed him.  The other members are not receiving e-mail
> due to the unavailability of the system, which might be due to
> a change??? in their mailer.

Yes, they changed their mailer configuration a bit over a week ago.  Your
host name (apparently both in the HELO and the RCPT) needs to be listed in
the DNS.  All of my mail was bouncing since I use a bogus domain name for my
LAN with its dynamic IP connection.  I added masquerading to Sendmail,
changed the "visible name" for Smail, and changed the environment variable
for qmail (one of these days I'll standardize on one for all my machines :-).
I picked a bogus machine name for a system I'm affiliated with that has a
wildcard MX record and all of my mail goes through now.  (They check that
your system name exists, not that it necessarily maps to your IP address. :-)

This suggests that the machine name that delivers TLUG mail doesn't have
an MX record anywhere (although "lists" and "misc" do exist).  I don't
see a wildcard entry for *.twics.com.
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