William Witteman via talk <talk@gtalug.org> writes:
I have run a mailserver for my domains for a long time. I have not thought about its ability to send outbound mail for a while though, and my logs tell me what my experience already suggested - it cannot send email to Gmail (and probably lots of other places).
Can anyone recommend a tutorial for setting up my mailserver (I'm using postfix on Debian) so that Gmail and others will accept my mails?
I am pretty sure there is reverse DNS that I don't have set up, but there are probably other details I don't know about too.
From time to time pronlems arose which I solved by signing up with "smtp2go" [FREE if small volume] and my domain host "dnsexit" [20$
Personally I use, and have always used GNU-Emacs. per month as backup] so my ",authinfo" file looks thusly: machine smtp.smtp2go.com login billh@sdf.org port 587 password GUESS machine smtp.smtp2go.com login billh@sdf.org port 25 password GUESS machine smtp.smtp2go.com login billh@sdf.org port 2525 password GUESS machine relay.dnsexit.com login algarveserversrelay port 940 password WHEREYOUFROM machine news.eternal-september.org login inconnu port 119 password FOOLEDYOu Just a word of warning though, .....free.fr manage to deeo six anything with "gmail" in the address, etc section and so do "proxad".the parent company of FF and seceral others. So I just use my iPhome for gmail to certain mailboxes wich I set im my configs. My main addresses inbound via are freeshell/sdf.org and they seem to take anythind, nor hace I experienced any problems other than gmail with proxad/free. Just my 2 bits worth. -- William Henderson MBA, CA, CPA aka Slackrat http://billh.sdf.org/slackware.jpg 9HS5203 ON HamSphere Ham Radio HANDLE Bill [80+]