Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes: >Hi Norm, > >> The Email you analyzied was not sent from the computer suffering the >> bouncing problem. >> >> But this Email will be so sent. > >Do you have trouble following the Received headers, bottom to top? :-) > >Received: from jad.dad.org (unknown [198.144.207.170]) >by mailwash26.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8626B1B311 >for <[email protected]>; Fri, 25 May 2012 07:55:23 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from jad.dad.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) >by jad.dad.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FA0123457; >Fri, 25 May 2012 04:55:22 -0700 (PDT) >Message-Id: <[email protected]> > >You passed it to Postfix on your localhost. Postfix then passed it to >mailwash26.pair.com in order to reach me. pair added the top `received' >header and said it was speaking to 198.144.207.170 but couldn't resolve >that to a PTR record, therefore `unknown'. > >Sure enough, > >$ host 198.144.207.170 >Host 170.207.144.198.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) >$ > >That's from a block owned by Raw Bandwidth Communications. > >http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-198-144-192-0-1 > >Not many of them have reverse PTRs. > >$ seq 1 254 | >> while read a; do >> printf "%3d " $a >> dig +short @ns.tsoft.net. $a.207.144.198.in-addr.arpa ptr >> echo >> done | >> >> awk 'NF > 1' >1 sjbel-gw.rawbw.net. >2 belsj-gw.rawbw.net. >9 tsoftgw-providenet.tsoft.net. >10 providenetgw.tsoft.net. >29 tsoftgw-specfib.tsoft.net. >30 specfibgw.tsoft.net. >81 81.net80.207.144.198.in-addr.arpa. >82 82.net80.207.144.198.in-addr.arpa. >97 widewebgw.wideweb.com. >98 server.wideweb.com. >99 studio.wideweb.com. >100 notebook.wideweb.com. >101 studio2.wideweb.com. >105 www.webskulker.com. >106 www.excessmaterials.com. >129 border1.wc1.specialtyfibres.com. >130 airlock.specialtyfibres.com. >133 cerberus-u.specialtyfibres.com. >134 e3-core1.wc1.specialtyfibres.com. >162 mail.aclunc.org. >163 webmail.aclunc.org. >$ > >You need to ask your contacts "there" how to always have a PTR for your IP >address, currently 198.144.207.170.
Are you saying that, the contact, [email protected], mail to whom bounces, should do something special? He would have no more idea of what a PTR is than I do. > It's not a good idea to run a mail server from a machine I don't do any such thing. I would not attempt it anymore than I would try to climb mount Everest. > without one these days which is why, once again, I'd have thought you should > be using your ISPs smarthost to send mail to others on your behalf. I don't know what a smarthost is. All I do. by way sending mail, is whatever the nmh defaults are, except that .mh_profile has the line: postproc: /usr/local/nmh/lib/post Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
