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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:33:24 pm Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:52 -0500, Bruce Harding wrote:
> > I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited
> > amount of users be about to register to my blog.  The problem I'm having
> > is the verification email is not going through.  Below is the error
> > message from /var/log/messages.
> >
> >
> > Jan 13 12:44:11 server sendmail[7951]: n0DHiAfd007951:
> > to=bruce [ at ] computerbooksforless [ dot ] com, ctladdr=apache (81/81),
> > delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30525,
> > relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
> > refused
> >
> > So my questions are this a problem with Rogers or do I have a
> > configuration problem.  Do I need to use my Rogers Smtp?
>
> Note that Rogers requires you to login before accepting any e-mail. Is
> your SMTP service configured to handle this?
>
> Also, I stopped using my server at home as a SMTP relay after I found
> out that many sites (ISP's and companies), just drop messages
> relayed via a dynamic IP address, as the one you get from Rogers. I
> guess they assume that they are SPAM.
>
> So, even if you get to pass messages on to Rogers I bet that at one
> point or another you will hit this second problem and there's nothing
> you can do about it.

It is being to seem to be more trouble than it is worth?  I'll keep knocking 
away at it for the rest of the day, but if it is not easy it is not worth it 
to me to pursue this too far.

-- 
Bruce Harding, Member: IEEE, SPIE, IACR
Manager,
Computer Books for Less
210 Bank St.
Ottawa ON  K2P 1W2
Phone: 613-233-7418
Fax: 613-233-6823

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