On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Charlie wrote: > Seeking help for my problem for the situation below:- > > Delivery attempt history for your mail: > > Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:10:05 +1000 (EST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your > hostname, [144.135.25.173] > > Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:08:49 +1000 (EST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your > hostname, [144.135.25.173]
And this was sent directly from your Postfix server to Mandrake's, or by way of your ISP's SMTP server? If the former, was that your IP address as of when the message was originally sent? > I received this reply from my states LUG :- > > From the messages below, the linux-mandrake.com list is refusing mail > from 144.135.25.173 because 144.135.25.173 has no reverse DNS. Ask > Telstra support to identify 144.135.25.173 and give it a reverse DNS. Sounds correct to me. The question is, who is 144.135.25.173, and where does/did that system fit into the transmission chain? > Interesting that mta09ps.email.bigpond.com also has no forward DNS. I'm not clear as to where that figures into the equation, as you did not include a header that mentions that hostname. FWIW, email.bigpond.com has a valid forward DNS (139.134.6.70), but that address fails to resolve back to that hostname (or any other one, for that matter) ... interesting ... > Having contacted my ISP I have received the answer as follows:- > > Dear BigPond Customer, > > The BigPond team would like to apologise for some intermittent email > problems you may have experienced this week. We quickly dedicated all > available resources to the problem, working to address it by rebalancing > the email load. We had the capacity to deal with the problem and we > believe it was resolved by early Wednesday afternoon. We will continue > to closely monitor email performance. > > Thank you for your patience. > > You can check the current state of all of our systems at > http://telstra.com/servicestatus/ > > > Yours faithfully, > > The BigPond Team > ------------------- > (TM) Trade Mark of Telstra Corporation Limited ABN 33 051 775 55 If you were sending through their SMTP server(s), then that reply doesn't really address the specific problem, and looks like a "canned" response (hardly surprising, that <g>). If, OTOH, you were trying to send directly, not only does the state of their mail servers have no bearing on your difficulties (as you're bypassing them), but by mentioning what you're doing, you could be opening an unpleasant can of worms, if running a mail server violates your TOS/AUP ... just a word to the wise, as they say. ;) > Thus I am trying it out to see if this message gets through. It did ... but the headers in it are a bit odd, IMHO. It seems to have gone by way of several of Telstra's SMTP servers before being sent on to Mandrake's, and it appears that the first of Telstra's mail systems is misidentifying itself to the second ... but it worked, somehow! :) Received: from gizmo13bw.bigpond.com (gizmo13bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.23]) by smtp1.mandrax.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0165513564 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:13:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 24570 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2003 07:57:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au) (144.135.24.81) by gizmo13bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2003 07:57:58 -0000 Received: from mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au ([144.139.163.63]) by bwmam05.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_3_2d 38/574539); 13 Nov 2003 17:58:11 I presume that mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au is your system? If so, it has a valid rDNS entry as well, which is nice to know. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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