On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:47:10PM -0500, MuttER wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:34:29PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:49:22AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian (dis)graced my
>inbox with:
> > > pat <mutt> [27/10/01 23:01 -0500]:
> > > > What is happening when I try to mail to someone at aol?
> > > > I get the following error:
> > > > Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
> > > > Arrival-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 04:18:02 +0000 (UTC)
> > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Action: failed
> > > > Status: 5.0.0
> > > > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mailin-04.mx.aol.com[152.163.224.122] said:
> > > > 550 REQUESTED ACTION NOT TAKEN: DNS FAILURE
> > > > I AM able to post everywhere EXCEPT AOL ??? (that I know of).
> > >
> > > AOL is much more anal over dns / reverse dns issues than other providers.
> > > Post some more detailed logs - and maybe ask postfix-users. This is not a
> > > mutt problem.
> >
> > Didn't somebody else just post with the exact same problem...?
> >
> Yes and I have solved my own problem. This is a MUTT ?problem?. If
> I set envelope_from ON, AOL accepts the post. Seems AOL does not like
> localhost.localdomain, but will accept ANY valid domain-name, as I use
> (above, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to limit spam, uce.
>
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addemdum to my own reply: I added a 'send-hook':
send-hook aol.com 'set envelope_from=yes'
and set the default to OFF.
This may be a problem with other locations, but I haven't found any, yet!
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Pat Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
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