On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Daniel Garcia wrote:
> hi,
> I sent few hundred emails, after few days I got almost all of them back
> with the same error below :
>
>
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at .
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Connected to 207.217.120.121 but my name was rejected.
> Remote host said: 501 HELO requires domain address
> I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
>
well.. it may have been that that machine was sending an invalid 5xx
response to HELO (it's not doing that at the moment). since this invalid
qmail assumes the remote system is broken and will be fixed sometime in the
future, and will retry the message
Richard
