Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-07 Thread Payal Rathod
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:55:13AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: what is -2, -C and somewhat what is -L but in plain enaglish what does this do? Please don't use the word tunnel, it is so broad :) All it does is that it maps the port localhost:2525 (your desktop port 2525) to

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Payal Rathod [10/7/2003 12:29 PM] : Ok, you mean localhost:2525 to remotehost:25? Yes Actually in staticky.com the relaying is allowed *only* for 127.0.0.1 i.e. 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT= Oh ok - then instead of mail.staticky.com or whatever make it explicitly 127.0.0.1 in that line above. I

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-07 Thread G.Vinubalaji
Talk away - I hate it, but I do have to run a rather large qmail shop sometimes (the backend for our 30 million users is all qmail, frontend is postfix though, thank god) Any particular reason(s) for hating qmail? -G.Vinubalaji ---

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
G.Vinubalaji [10/7/2003 2:30 PM] : Talk away - I hate it, but I do have to run a rather large qmail shop sometimes (the backend for our 30 million users is all qmail, frontend is postfix though, thank god) Any particular reason(s) for hating qmail? Weird and illogical config (lots of files

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 06/10/03 08:05 +0530, Payal Rathod wrote: snip I got this working on Linux on one ISP. Another ISP which provides me shell connection (staticky.com) didn't allow this. Can you tell me in *english* what the command did? I mean I understand what is -2, -C and somewhat what is -L but in plain

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Payal Rathod [10/6/2003 8:05 AM] : $ ssh -2 -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 2525:localhost:25 I got this working on Linux on one ISP. Another ISP which provides me shell connection (staticky.com) didn't allow this. Can you tell me in *english* what the command did? I mean I understand what is -2, -C and

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-04 Thread Payal Rathod
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:47:11AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: addresses mails to be send. My domain staticky.com do not have SMTP services at all for outsiders. So, that would mean I cannot send a mail to you and people of your domain. ssh tunnel! You do have ssh access somewhere

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Payal Rathod writes on 10/3/2003 12:22 PM: ssh tunnel? Can you be a bit more specific please? I would like to know about it more. For example, to tunnel your.shell.server port 25 (the smtp port on your shell server) to localhost port 2525 you would do - $ ssh -2 -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-03 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 03/10/03 10:13 +0530, Payal Rathod wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:49:09AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Payal Rathod [10/2/2003 12:40 AM] : what helo parameter do I put if I am on dial-up with multiple accounts of multiple domains. Send through your smarthost (maybe

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-02 Thread Payal Rathod
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:49:09AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Payal Rathod [10/2/2003 12:40 AM] : what helo parameter do I put if I am on dial-up with multiple accounts of multiple domains. Send through your smarthost (maybe your ISP mailserver) - you could use AUTH (patches to

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Payal Rathod [10/3/2003 10:13 AM] : My ISP (if you are taking about VSNL kinds) does not allow other addresses mails to be send. My domain staticky.com do not have SMTP services at all for outsiders. So, that would mean I cannot send a mail to you and people of your domain. ssh tunnel! You do

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-01 Thread Sthitaprajna
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:07:32 +0530, Payal Rathod [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:09:04PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 7:19 PM] : No. I repeat again. Filter based on just HELO is bad. I would suggest Suresh you also don't use it. Come on

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sthitaprajna [10/1/2003 7:22 PM] : On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:07:32 +0530, Payal Rathod [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:09:04PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 7:19 PM] : No. I repeat again. Filter based on just HELO is bad. I would suggest Suresh you

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-01 Thread Payal Rathod
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:24:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: You are mixing two entirely different things. 1. HELO rejects - those depend on the HELO, not on the connecting IP what helo parameter do I put if I am on dial-up with multiple accounts of multiple domains. nanae is

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-10-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Payal Rathod [10/2/2003 12:40 AM] : what helo parameter do I put if I am on dial-up with multiple accounts of multiple domains. Send through your smarthost (maybe your ISP mailserver) - you could use AUTH (patches to serialmail / qmail-smtpd, as you use qmail), or a ssh tunnel to your webhost's

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 7:19 PM] : Finally my mails are getting through after i requested for a change in the EHLO configuration option of my company qmail installation. Good for you. HELO filtering traps a TON of spam - and we use it extensively. Is there any specific reason for sourceforge

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread G.Vinubalaji
A clear PERMFAIL 5xx is issued. What do you mean the mail is denied but not bounced back? I meant the mail remains in the queue and qmail keeps on trying to send it to sourceforge, after say about a week it bounces back to me. I can see that it used to return a 550 error. 550 Requested

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 8:50 PM] : I meant the mail remains in the queue and qmail keeps on trying to send it to sourceforge, after say about a week it bounces back to me. I can see that it used to return a 550 error. Oh - their callbacks sometimes return 4xx. See that you have a postmaster

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Payal Rathod
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:19:37PM +0530, G.Vinubalaji wrote: Finally my mails are getting through after i requested for a change in the EHLO configuration option of my company qmail installation. What changes did you do? Did you change control/helohost file? I think just a A record in DNS

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Payal Rathod
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:09:04PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 7:19 PM] : Finally my mails are getting through after i requested for a change in the EHLO configuration option of my company qmail installation. Good for you. HELO filtering traps a TON of

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 30/09/03 19:09 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: snip 2. Makes a smtp callback (connects back to the sending domain's MX and verifies if ... 1. the user sending it exists, 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] exists)... only then does it let your mail through. Their SMTP callback is broken. If it gets

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-09-30 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 30/09/03 21:07 +0530, Payal Rathod wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:09:04PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: G.Vinubalaji [9/30/2003 7:19 PM] : Finally my mails are getting through after i requested for a change in the EHLO configuration option of my company qmail installation.

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Binu R
Hi Suresh, Thanks for the reply. I tried this, but still the mail status gives deferred. Couldn't collect much information from the syslog also. I am attaching some portion of the mail.log. External mails are going normally. Only local mails are creating problem, which I doubt may be due to some

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At 12:00 PM 9/9/2003, Binu R wrote: Thanks for the reply. I tried this, but still the mail status gives deferred. Couldn't collect much information from the syslog also. I am attaching some portion of the mail.log. External mails are going normally. Only local mails are creating problem, which I

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Binu R
Suresh, Sendmail version is 8.9.2. I even tried installing the latest of maildrop (1.6) . Earlier it was 1.4. But problm is not solved. Not any other information in the log files. Regards, Binu --- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:00 PM 9/9/2003, Binu R wrote: Thanks for

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At 01:54 PM 9/9/2003, Binu R wrote: Sendmail version is 8.9.2. I even tried installing the That sendmail has major security holes - upgrade! latest of maildrop (1.6) . Earlier it was 1.4. But problm is not solved. Not any other information in the log files. Try running a verbose / debug session

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Binu R
Hi Suresh, I even tried upgrading the sendmail to 8.12 getting the package from woody. But ... no use. I couldnt trace out what has gone wrong. Maybe someting wrong with maildrop. Any idea about delivering mails manually using maildrop ? Rds, Binu --- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At 05:29 PM 9/9/2003, Binu R wrote: I even tried upgrading the sendmail to 8.12 getting the package from woody. But ... no use. I couldnt trace out what has gone wrong. Maybe someting wrong with maildrop. Any idea about delivering mails manually using maildrop ? Use procmail instead - or

[LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-08 Thread Binu R
Hi,   I am using maildrop + sendmail on a mail server running debian potato. It was working fine for more than 8 months and suddenly for the past few days, mails are not getting delivered(local only). External mails are getting transferred. Mail log and syslog shows only status as deferred. If I

Re: [LIH]Mail Delivery problem

2003-09-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Binu R [9/9/2003 8:31 AM] : I am using maildrop + sendmail on a mail server running debian potato. It was working fine for more than 8 months and suddenly for the past few days, mails are not getting delivered(local only). External mails are getting transferred. Mail log and syslog shows only

[LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-08-27 Thread kumarayil
Friends, My mail to LIH didn't delivered. The error msg which I got is SMTP error from remote mailer after HELO gnusvr01: host mail.sourceforge.net [66.35.250.206]: 550 Don't like your HELO/EHLO. hostname must contain a dot. My hostname is gnusvr01. It was working earlier with this setup.

Re: [LIH]Mail delivery problem

2003-08-27 Thread Dileep M. Kumar
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:34:08AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: The HELO must be a FQDN. That is what sourceforge is checking for - sensible of them. Change primary_hostname in exim.conf to gnusrv01.kumarayil.net or whatever. Then make sure an A record for that primary_hostname