On 05-Jul-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear David, > > First let me compliment you on a great mail server. > > I have been working with it and very impressed. > > I do have a few questions, though, which I tried to send to the list but I > was having trouble figuring out how to subscribe - I was following > instructions on subscribing at: > http://xmail.eye-catcher.com/maillistinfo.asp > > But my email was bounced - maybe that is old data? > Some data on that site are wrong, Shawn pls correct it. > > In the meantime, I am having trouble getting Xmail to send mail externally > - whenever I try to send out, I get two failure messages for each message > I try to send. Reason for failure is: > > <Failure Reason> > 501 Invalid domain name > </Failure Reason> > > The oddity is that when I check in the dnscache of xmail, I find that it > has successfully found the mail exchangers for the domain in question. > > Also, I checked my SmartDNSHosts and they are responding correctly on > recursive queries. > > If you have any advice on this, I would appreciate it! > > Thank you again. > > One other oddity is that I did get Xmail to send correctly out to a > different external address, (@earthlink.net) but not another address which > was the one I am writing to you from (@thunderstar.net). The problem is that some SMTP server ( XMail is one of these ), to avoid spam, perform a check on the HELO domain to verify that it's an existent domain. Try to comment the HeloDomain variable in server.tab and see what happens. The fact that You can send to some domains while You can't to others confirm this thesis. - Davide
