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

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

>  > 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?

Yes and no :)

It's often easier if I want someone to grab summat off my machine to point 
them to my machine rather than downloading it onto my main webspace. You've 
got my TOC of references for me to stuff on my machine - hence there are a 
few file:// entries as well. Not that I use it much these days. But it all 
gets logged, and there's a firewall rule on there as well to log connections 
as wrell as apache's own log files. :)

> 
> Are you running ADSL or something along those lines?
> 

No - a 56k modem - but F9 have a nice 0800 number at weekends (on F9 premier 
- not sure if they still give it out as Smurftime is available and FRIACO 
soon), so I'm more likely to leave the modem up all day. Though I'm looking 
at going the Yorkshire Cable/Telewest Blue Yonder route and getting a nice 
quick connection, but I'm still researching that one.

>  > 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).

What's the chances that'll get RBL'd in the near future then...you could just 
set up freeserve to go through ecosse and send everything else direct ... put 
an entry in control/smtproutes akin to:
	.freeserve.co.uk:ecosse.net
and restart qmail - then everything for <whatever>.freeserve.co.uk will go 
through ecosse. You may find you also need:
	freeserve.co.uk:ecosse.net
to handle any mail you sent to <user> [at] freeserve.co.uk (ie, no host/sub-domain 
on the domain).

> 
> 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.
> 

Run the servers on a high port (ie, > 1024) - should circumvent the problem 
if its a firewall thing. I thought they were cycling IP's every couple of 
hours or something to make running a service very tricky. I oculd be mistaken 
though :) Most clients support alternative port numbers for services.

> 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.
> 

BT don't want ADSL to intrude on their leased line/ISDN/<whatever> revenue. 
It's a purely economic restriction, and may mean ADSL won't take off here 
like it should. At least amongst internet power users.

Chris...


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