Re: [ALACPP] mail server issues

[Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, here's a test to see if things work for me.  This message ought to 
use mail.scaldeferri.com rather than the Overture servers.  (For some 
reason, Mozilla makes it somewhat convoluted to set up different 
outgoing SMTP servers for different email accounts, and warns you that 
dire things might happen if you do...)


Kevin


Jon Stewart wrote:

> I think this mainly effects Yahoo! folks, but the charybdis sysadmin
> recently switched from qmail to Postfix and has enabled RFC-strictness to
> cut down on spam (good). Unfortunately for us, Postfix is detecting
> inconsistencies between IP addresses and DNS names from legitimate hosts,
> as below (bad), so it looks like Chris and Kevin have had some email
> silently rejected.
>
> We're working on a resolution to the problem.
>
>
> Jon
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> Replied: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:02:53 -0800
> Return-Path: uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Delivery-Date: Mon Mar 15 17:18:42 2004
> Return-Path: <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> X-Original-To: stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Delivered-To: stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: from scylla.ellipsis.cx (scylla.ellipsis.cx [192.168.1.2])
> 	by charybdis.ellipsis.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008F423174
> 	for <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:18:42 -0600 (CST)
> Received: by scylla.ellipsis.cx (Postfix, from userid 500)
> 	id EA6BE9D4F; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:18:41 -0600 (CST)
> To: stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: argh, another one
> From: Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:18:41 -0600
> Sender: uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Message-Id: <20040315231841.EA6BE9D4F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks like we have another person on your list who's mail server doesn't
> follow RFC 2821:
>
> Mar 15 16:01:20 charybdis postfix/smtpd[2332]: 4B0FE23174: reject: RCPT from ou
> tsmtp-corp.overture.com[216.52.229.76]: 450 <msweep1.Corpsys.P4pnet.net>: Helo
> command rejected: Host not found; from=<kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to=<alacpp@ellip
> sis.cx> proto=ESMTP helo=<msweep1.Corpsys.P4pnet.net>
>
> msweep1.Corpsys.P4pnet.net isn't in DNS, which is what 216.52.229.76
> identifies itself as.
>
> Hmmm. This is making me wonder whether being RFC-strict is going to result
> in my having to fix every broken thing on the net myself. Perhaps just
> getting things squared away with the people who regularly send mail here
> is good enough? Thoughs?
>
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>
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