KMail: why is my email spam?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 22:00:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:43 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 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.

Slightly OT, but I just use Gmail for SMTP too. That way I get an
indexed copy of everything I send without any extra work (of course, so
does Google ...)

poc



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