Hi Gary, On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Gary Roach wrote:
> I am trying to setup exim4 to transfer automated messages from an > experimental website to outgoing.verizon.net. The short of it is that I > can't get exim to finish connecting to outgoing.verizon.net. I am using > swak to test the conniction with the command line: > > swak --auth --to [email protected] --server outgoing.verizon.net Presumably because Exim isn't working, so you're testing to see if you can reproduce the problem using Swak? > -> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> > <** 550 5.1.8 invalid/host-not-in-DNS return address not allowed It's complaining about the return address, [email protected]. It says that it's not valid, which it's not. Is there a --from option to Swak, or something like that? Could you try using a real address as your FROM address? > Using exim to write a message gives the same result except the return is > dumped into the log file with not as clear failure information. Could you give us the actual log messages? > My sending computer is named cruncher and is on domain "domain.com". If the "hostname" command says "cruncher.domain.com" then a test mail sent using Exim, if no explicit domain was specified, would often be qualified as [email protected]. However this is fully configurable, so please tell us *exactly* how your website/application is sending the email (what lines of code and configuration you use to do it) and the relevant parts of your Exim configuration file (qualify_domain and everything it depends on). > My trouble starts when they do some form of reverse DNS lookup on, I > believe on EHLO, to make sure that I am who I say I am (antispammer). I > don't know what to send for the DNS lookup or how to send it. I think it's the return address, not the HELO, that they're complaining about. Use a real email address (e.g. your own). Cheers, Chris. -- _ ___ __ _ / __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Perl/SQL/HTML Developer | \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU-free your mind-and your software | -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
