On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:51:04AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:28:11PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
>
> > >
>ected_to_216.32.243.136_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
> >
> > This is qmail-remote signalling that it doesn't get a 250 back when doing
> > HELO. The server name was rejected. Possibly by two reasons. The hostname
> > did not resolve or did not have a proper reverse DNS entry, or that the
> > hostname domain doesn't have any MX. The latter one is very silly indeed as
> > mail delivery should be done to the host if MX is lacking.
>
> If you telnet to port 25 on that address, it doesn't look like it's even a
> mail server. No SMTP greeting at all. Doesn't answer any commands,
> either.
08:47;fluff:(~): telnet 216.32.243.136 25
Trying 216.32.243.136...
Connected to 216.32.243.136.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Tue Jun 20 08:47:57 2000
220 ESMTP spoken here
Works fine here.
Couldn't replicate error though.
/magnus
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