Hi folks.
I want to thank everybody who's responded so far, again; it's been a very
helpful dialog, and Christopher Davis's recent message shed a lot of
useful light on the subject. It sounds like it may not be a qmail problem
after all, but a problem with the way MSN's DNS responds to ANY queries?
John White sent me a message offlist suggesting that I set up an smtproute
around msn.com, using one of its IPs from a manual dig. I didn't know
about smtproute, and I put together a one-line smtproute file with this:
msn.com:207.46.181.45
...and sent a test message to a bogus msn address, and it bounced back
from the server with a "no such user"! I expect a loud whoosh as my
queued messages finally leave to M$-land (and hopefully never come back).
Thank you to everyone who responded. This seemed like a band-aid at
first, but in light of Christopher's message it seems like it might have
to be a solution, until/unless MSN fixes their server.
I'm happy to serve as a testbed if there's anything further that can be
done on the qmail end, and if anybody wants to keep kicking it. Does the
smtproute solution seem workable? I suppose if that IP address goes bad,
I'll start hearing about it in the logs, right?
Cheers,
Steve Linberg
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Steve Linberg, Chief Goblin
Silicon Goblin Technologies
http://silicongoblin.com
Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
