On 16/05/16 17:55, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 16/05/16 17:31, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 16/05/16 15:40, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2016 14:53:12 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Unless you have a Linux machine acting as a mail relay on your
domestic
network, what that message means is that your SMTP relay has detected
the fact that your IP address has been sending spam, and is
blacklisted
at spamhaus.

ITYM 'a machine' - why would it have to be Linux?

Why on earth would anyone build a mail server on OSX or on Windows?

Because OS X is what I have here.

Sweeping generalisation.

Educated guess.

There simply isn't MTA software for windows except Exchange, and who
runs that at home?

And I have never ever seen a Mac used as an MTA ever.

So what?

The point being that anyone smart enough to to know how to use Windows
or OSX as MTA would be smart enough to know not to.

Why not? OS X comes, or seems to come, with the components needed (I'm
assuming that smtpd, postfix, sendmail, are relevant). Just like it
comes with apache and PHP, too (unlike Mint, as far as I could tell).

Now, I seem to recall reading that for reasons I've now forgotten,
Linux is better than OS X for process switching, which would probably
make it better for a production server, but for low-level home use that
probably doesn't matter. Those same reasons may make OS X a better
desktop machine, for all I know.

I'm wouldn't be going to bother trying to run another OS on a permanent
basis if I wanted to make my OS X file-server also be a mail server.
Not that I have any intention of doing so - I don't even have a static
IP address - but if I *did* want to I'd be asking on one of the Mac
ng's rather than here, anyway.

So you confirm that you have a mac and you are not running an MTA on it?

Correct, FWIW.

Mac users are not the sort of people who DO run MTAS.

Oh and Mint does come with apache and PHP. Not that its releavent to
anything

Well it was relevant to me when running my app. Where are they located?

????

what do you mean 'where are they located'?


All over the place. Applications don't have 'a place'. Not in Linux, or
indeeed windows, and its a bit artificial if they have in OSX too...





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