Re: [Sheflug] Reply-To headers this time.

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Chris J/#6 writes:

 > infinitum.madhouse is just my local internet-invalid machine name; the 
 > madhouse.force9.co.uk you mention doesn't exist :)

 Probably just a slight slip of the fingers. :-) Oh and the fact that
I was half sleep by 0000hrs. 

 > It's infinitum.force9.co.uk (my static IP name) and infinitum.f9.co.uk (which is 
 > the MX entry for my machine)

 I've just gone to that address - and got a webpage that seems to be 2
years old :-)
Also all the links are to http://localhost/[stuff] - which doesn't
work too well from over here :-)
Should that page be publically accessable?

Are you running ADSL or something along those lines?

 > > 
 > > Qmail uses mail.ecosse.net as a gateway.
 > > 
 > 
 > I'm assuming that's an entry in smtproutes - otherwise qmail would do a DNS 
 > to grab the MX of the recipient's domain, and send direct there (which is how 
 > I have it set up, bar a couple of awkward domains which I force through f9's 
 > mail hosts) as I like to have the log for the recipient machine - makes 
 > tracing email better (plus you can mail a postmaster saying "oi!" and give 
 > him a log dump).
 
Quite right.
A while ago, when trying to send a message to Martin Holland off
list, to his Freeserve address I got bounced, because I'm sitting on a
dynamic IP :-(
Because of that, I've got it set up to relay through mail.ecosse.net
(my friendly open relay..and where my mail account is).

Another thing that annoys me is that it seems that BT Openworld,
if/when it ever arrives here (middle of nowhere, Wiltshire) is that
it's been setup to block servers - I can't run mail/http/whatever.

And yet there are other companies that are no doubt using BT's lines
to do (A)DSL with the freedom to chose to run a server.

Baz.
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