I just received the following message regarding a mail problem with a site we
host. We run 4.07 and have the anti-spam feature turned on (forwards only
our own users' mail). Of course, these people were apparently sending mail
in; so why was there a problem? We've never had this happen before. Anyone
else run into this?
Ben Bednarz
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(message received:)
In a message dated 8/2/99 7:27:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<<
Your mail server is rejecting valid delivery error messages from our
mail server, presumably due to the use of the null envelope-sender
address on those messages. Internet mail standards require both the
use and the acceptance of the null "mail from:" on messages from
mailer daemon processes.
References:
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc821.txt
Requirements for Internet Hosts
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2505.txt
--
Paul Russell
Senior System Administrator
University of Notre Dame
----- Original message -----
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500
> (EST)
> from localhost
>
> UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME EMAIL ADDRESSES
> CAN BE FOUND USING THE FOLLOWING WEB URL:
> http://www.nd.edu/~email
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mail.bcwebhost.net.:
> >>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=7368
> <<< 501 bogus mail from
> 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Data format error
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dagger.nd.edu
> Received-From-MTA: X-Unix; [208.8.150.202]
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.2
> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.bcwebhost.net
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 bogus mail from
> Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:22 -0500 (EST)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:59:21 -0500
> (EST)
> from [208.8.150.202]
>
> UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME EMAIL ADDRESSES
> CAN BE FOUND USING THE FOLLOWING WEB URL:
> http://www.nd.edu/~email
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> bolt.l: Mailbox does not exist
> 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dagger.nd.edu
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; [208.8.150.202]
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:59:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.1
> Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: July Sc email.doc
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 99 15:53:44 Pacific Daylight Time
> From: "Ring-of-Fire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mary Bolt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >(*'Y
> bjbjWW==]
> ^``````$OC****.^^*Z*:(,^
> @.#'.T
> Ring-of-Fire July Science Letter
>>
==================================================
(remainder of message clipped)
Your mail server is rejecting valid delivery error messages from our
mail server, presumably due to the use of the null envelope-sender
address on those messages. Internet mail standards require both the
use and the acceptance of the null "mail from:" on messages from
mailer daemon processes.
References:
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc821.txt
Requirements for Internet Hosts
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2505.txt
--
Paul Russell
Senior System Administrator
University of Notre Dame
----- Original message -----
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500
> (EST)
> from localhost
>
> UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME EMAIL ADDRESSES
> CAN BE FOUND USING THE FOLLOWING WEB URL:
> http://www.nd.edu/~email
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mail.bcwebhost.net.:
> >>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=7368
> <<< 501 bogus mail from
> 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Data format error
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dagger.nd.edu
> Received-From-MTA: X-Unix; [208.8.150.202]
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.2
> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.bcwebhost.net
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 bogus mail from
> Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:22 -0500 (EST)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:59:21 -0500
> (EST)
> from [208.8.150.202]
>
> UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME EMAIL ADDRESSES
> CAN BE FOUND USING THE FOLLOWING WEB URL:
> http://www.nd.edu/~email
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> bolt.l: Mailbox does not exist
> 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dagger.nd.edu
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; [208.8.150.202]
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 17:59:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.1
> Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:02:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: July Sc email.doc
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 99 15:53:44 Pacific Daylight Time
> From: "Ring-of-Fire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mary Bolt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >(*'Y
> bjbjWW==]
> ^``````$OC****.^^*Z*:(,^
> @.#'.T
> Ring-of-Fire July Science Letter
> Question of the month: Industrial diamonds are commercially
> manufactured in chemical laboratories and plants. Do you know what
> common household item was used when the first scientists were trying
> to make industrial diamonds? (Answer next month.)
> The hottest place on earth for the week ending July 23, 1999 was
> Adrar, Algeria. It was over 120( degrees there. The coldest place on
> earth was Vostok (Russia) Antarctica at minus 110(.
> Earthquakes occurred in the following places this past week: southern
> Bangladesh, eastern Turkey, Colombia, Peru, south central Alaska,
> southwestern islands of Japan, and in Taiwan.
> India has had very severe monsoon rains this year. Floods in the
> Kaziranga National Park are threatening the nearly extinct one-horned
> rhinos. The park has the last major population of these animals and it
> is flooded right now.
> The Soufriere Hills volcano on the West Indies island of Montserrat
> exploded and sent pyroclastic flows down its eastern slopes. The ash
> from the volcano shot into the air over 40,000 feet. Colima volcano in
> western Mexico erupted with a four-mile high plume of smoke. Three
> hundred people from four towns had to evacuated.
> In early July 50 Beluga whales were trapped by shifting ice in the
> Canadian Arctic. Hungry polar bears were waiting at their breathing
> holes. When the whales surfaced for air the bears would drag them on
> the ice and attack them. Inuits punched holes in the ice to give the
> whales a better chance to survive until the seasonal ice melt creates
> an escape channel for the whales.
> A new species of a deer in southeast Asia has been found. It is called
> the Leaf Deer and is only twenty inches high at the shoulder and
> doesn't weigh over twenty-five pounds. The deer lives in northern
> Myanmar, formerly the country of Burma.
> If you haven't visited our web site you might like to. The mountain we
> are featuring right now is Mt. St. Helens. We also have a fun activity
> about bubbling eggshells plus an interesting fact.
> Our goal is to change the mountain and activities each month. So catch
> our web site at Ring-of-Fire.com and find out some more fun and
> interesting things about science.
> Myrna
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