I just started using qmail, for outgoing mail only.
(I'm on a DSL line, and the DSL ISP's mail servers are flakey.
Incoming mail -- via a different ISP that hosts my domain -- works
fine. Unfortunately, I can't use their outgoing SMTP server since I'm
not dialed in on one of their lines.)
Most of my email gets sent successfully (this post, for example). But
I've run into one site that bounces messages with a "Your SPAM not
welcome" error. I've noticed that vrfy reports the same error:
> vrfy -vv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vrfy '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 'xyz.somewhere.gov'
connecting to xyz.somewhere.gov (x.y.z.w) port 25
<<< 220 xyz.somewhere.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3;
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:06:06 -0500 (EST)
>>> VRFY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< 550 Your SPAM not welcome
Your SPAM not welcome
>>> QUIT
<<< 221 [EMAIL PROTECTED] closing connection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... User unknown
My qmail control files look like this:
defaultdomain foolabs.com
defaulthost foolabs.com
idhost foolabs.com
locals localhost.localdomain
me adsl-63-197-235-82.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net
plusdomain foolabs.com
rcpthosts localhost.localdomain
Locals and rcpthosts are bogus, but this shouldn't matter for outgoing
mail, as I understand it. Me is ugly, but it's a valid host name that
resolves to my IP address.
Do I have a qmail configuration problem here?
The only other thing I've noticed is that xyz.somewhere.gov attempts
to talk to identd (port 113) on my system, which is being rejected by my
firewall. Is it common for people to configure sendmail to refuse to
accept mail from systems not running identd?
- Derek
