Do you know if she is authenticating properly with the SMTP server when sending mail? If she isn't, I wouldn't be surprised if a server somewhere is rejecting the mail relay. Authenticating with your mail client is not necessarily the same as authenticating with the smtp server. Most mail clients handle this properly, but most of my own problems with email through Linux occur due to authentication troubles...
Hope this helps some... Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Nick W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) Sendmail problem A friend of mine is having an odd problem sending emails. I hooked her up with a shaw addy under my account, and she has been using their web-mail to send/receive. The odd thing is that she can send mail to people on shaws domain, but has problems with others. She gets... Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Remote system: dns;mx3.hotmail.com (TCP|10.0.120.133|34051|65.54.167.5|25) ---OR--- Reason: Illegal host/domain name found Before you ask, the addresses shes sending to are valid, and typed correctly. You'll notice and mock the example I posted b/c its hotmail, but its happening when sending to other hosts/domains [ie cnrl.ca]. The only thing I can fathom is she has capital letters in her address, is it possible the server chokes on that? -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221
