[Gllug] How can I make sure my email is not treated as spam?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:19, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Sat 01 Mar Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:37, Doug Winter wrote:
> > > The other option is to use your ISPs outgoing mailserver as a
> > > smarthost.  Obviously it's better to avoid depending on it if you
> > > can, but this is a straightforward solution.
> >  
> > How do I do that?
> 
> First, find out what it is.  Your ISP should have told you, and it
> should be on their website somewhere.
> 
> Configuring your mailserver will depend on what it is (which you haven't
> said).  The "smarthost" configuration is a very common one, and
> hopefully should be trivially supported by your distro - Debian comes
> with this as an option out of the box, dunno about RH.
> 
>

Thanks for this - the smtp server is mailhost.dircon.co.uk and
netscalibur say this is configured as a "smarthost" - so I suppose it is
about getting sendmail (which I am invoking via perl scripts) to route
its mail through that... I'll go googling now. But if anyone knows the
simple answer I'd be very happy to hear it :->


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