On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:15:00PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
Alexander Volovics wrote:
No, you're not. At least you're sending mail to this mailing list directly from your own machine (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl [84.30.68.3]) to Red Hat's MX hosts, not via any smarthost:
Received: from cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl (cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl
[84.30.68.3])
by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1IFgvvu021330
for <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:42:57 -0500
Received: by af.ever.maas (Postfix, from userid 500)
id C7446140FEB; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:46:37 +0100 (CET)
Yes, I am! This is probably due to my postfix main.cf setup which contains
the line: "smtp_helo_name = cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl"
I did this to keep all traces of my home network out of the headers.
Maybe I should rethink this.
The top Received: line above shows mx1.redhat.com receiving a connection from 84.30.68.3; is that your IP or your ISP's smarthost's IP? My money's on the former.
84.30.68.3 is certainly my IP, let us check:
$ host cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl cm10703-a.maast1.lb.home.nl has address 84.30.68.3
However I am also definitely relaying my mail through my ISPs mailserver 'mail.home.nl'. I use postfix for this.
This is configured in postfix's mail.cf file via: 'relayhost = [mail.home.nl]' And if the email address is wrong (or something like that) I always get an 'undeliverable' message from the @home server.
Another check: $ host mail.home.nl mail.home.nl has address 213.51.128.65 And I also see this in the headers.
Look at the headers of your own mails sent to this mailing list. 213.51.128.65 does not appear in them.
Sendmail has a facility called "mailertable" that allows you to specify different relay hosts for different recipient domains. I expect Postfix has an equivalent feature. Are you using that feature? Might that be why some mail is routed via the smarthost and some not?
Paul.
