On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 19:28 +1300, Chris Downie wrote:
> Out of the blue my mail client (Opera) has stopped sending messages. I did a
> clean install of Mepis 8.0.1 and Opera 10 and sending just stopped. Receiving
> messages is fine and sending via another client (KMail) is fine so it is not
> the ports or firewall stopping things. My ISP say they do not require
> authentication to send messages. A log of an outgoing connection reveals:
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> Connecting...
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP IN :
> 220 ananke.wxnz.net ESMTP Postfix
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> EHLO localhost
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP IN :
> 250-ananke.wxnz.net
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 14619200
> 250-ETRN
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250 DSN
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP IN :
> 250 2.1.0 Ok
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP IN :
> 554 5.7.1 <localhost>: Helo command rejected: You are not me
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> RSET
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP IN :
> 250 2.0.0 Ok
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:06 SMTP OUT :
> QUIT
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:07 SMTP IN :
> 221 2.0.0 Bye
>
> 18/09/2009 13:30:07 SMTP IN :
> Disconnected
>
> Everything appears in order except the obvious:
> "554 5.7.1 <localhost>: Helo command rejected: You are not me"
>
> Who do I need to be and where might I put it?? Everything in my Opera
> account,
> prefs and .ini files appear to be in order (compared to a backup).
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
What do you have in /etc/hosts for localhost and ananke.wxnz.net?
