>I don't understand this error message.
>
>Feb 24 12:00:21 mailgate postfix/smtp[47566]: E3B45536:
>to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=mail-incoming.hostsave.com[207.150.192.13],
>delay=2, status=bounced (host mail-incoming.hostsave.com[207.150.192.13]
>said: 554 unresolvable address: <  [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Failed)

mx1# telnet 207.150.192.13 25
Trying 207.150.192.13...
Connected to lmg.affinity.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 lmg04.affinity.com ZMailer Server 2.99.38 #1 ESMTP ready at Mon, 24 Feb 
2003 11:58:13 -0800
quit

>Looking at the log, it looks like postfix couldn't resolve the address of
>the receiving domain, but doing a quick " host wcpc.net" I get

ZMailer = postfix ?? since when?

> > host wcpc.net
>wcpc.net has address 207.150.192.12
>wcpc.net mail is handled (pri=1) by mail-incoming.hostsave.com
>wcpc.net mail is handled (pri=10) by mail-incoming2.hostsave.com

yes, it has both A and MX records

> > host mail-incoming.hostsave.com
>mail-incoming.hostsave.com has address 207.150.192.13
>mail-incoming.hostsave.com mail is handled (pri=10) by lmg.ahnet.net
>mail-incoming.hostsave.com mail is handled (pri=20) by mail.ahnet.net
>
> > host 207.150.192.13
>13.192.150.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer lmg.affinity.com
>
>What could it be?

temporary DNS failure or simply DNS timeout.

note that, postfix fails DNS timeouts with 4xx on the assumption the DNS 
will resolve later, but Zmailer fails fatally with defintive 5xx. dumb.

Len


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