Hi Gordon

Gordon Messmer wrote:

>> error,relay=::ffff:203.57.193.26,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 421 
>> mail2.agl.com.au rejected the MAIL FROM command
> 
> That's an odd place for dialback to fail.  Perhaps your hostname doesn't 
> resolve in DNS?
> 
> Start python from the command line, and enter:
> 
> import courier.config
> print courier.config.me()
> 
> The name that's printed must be valid in DNS, or many sites will reject 
> mail from you (possibly DSNs).

Many thanks for the advice. I'm a tad confused at this point as I don't 
really know enough about how Courier communicates with other 
mailservers. There is no "me" file so above commands just gave the FQDN 
for the server machine hta21.trinity.asn.au. This is not accessible 
directly from outside the LAN. All external email to domain 
trinity.asn.au is directed to our external IP address, and we forward 
port 25 from the router (which I gather would be a typical small system 
setup). I have set the defaultdomain file to trinity.asn.au and that 
appears to work fine. We have been running Courier-MTA for 2 and a half 
years without any apparent connection problems, certainly nothing 
visibly associated with DNS resolution.

We also have the esmtphelo file set to mail.trinity.asn.au which is not 
a machine inside the network - it is just a dummy identifier.

Is it that Courier is sending DSNs with the full machine hostname that 
is causing this? I haven't tried setting the me file as I'm still unsure 
what I'm doing. I'll readup a bit more over the weekend.

cheers, Ken

> 
> If that's the problem, you should create /etc/courier/me or fix your DNS 
> records.  See the man page for courier(8) for information.
> 
> 
> Gordon,

Scott wrote:
> 
> Pythonfilter is fabulous!  It's intuitive and easy to setup and works 
> flawlessly (for me anyway).

Ditto

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