KMail: why is my email spam?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 19:43:50 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>>>> I always use (and always have used) KMail,
>>> and I don't see anything odd in my settings.
>>> I use the default sendmail for sending email,
>>> which could conceivably be the cause of the problem.
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone has come across this,
>>> and can offer an expanation and if possible a solution?
>
>> But looking at the raw email, you seem to be sending the emails:
>>
>> your computer > gmane > target mailing list.
>>
>> Since neither your computer or gmane is eircom.net, it's fairly
>> logical to assume that you aren't really the sender of the email, and
>> is therefore spam.
>>
>> You want to use the SMTP servers provided by eircom.net to send your
>> email. So:
>>
>> your computer > eircom.net SMTP > target mailing list.
>
> Thanks very much for all the responses, and the advice,
> especially the above.
>
> I see that I had
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(gayleard.com)dnl
> in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc on my laptop,
> that being the name of my home web-server.
> I guess I must have set this at some point,
> perhaps when I had ideas above my station.
>
> I've changed this to
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(eircom.net)dnl
> that being the name of my ISP.
> Hopefully this will assuage the spam thought-police.

That at least helps. Ideally you would just use your ISPs SMTP servers
though, instead of your own sendmail.


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