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

[Robert McKay]

On 1 Mar 2003, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> 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 :->

1) Find "DS" at the start of the line in /etc/sendmail.cf.
2) Add mailhost.dircon.co.uk to that ie: "DSmailhost.dircon.co.uk"
3) get sendmail to reload it's config file.  ( pkill -HUP sendmail /
   /etc/init.d/sendmail reload / etc.. )
4) Profit?


-Robert.


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