Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail [solved]
Thank you all for your kind help. The problem was apparently, that the HELO message of my postfix server did not match the rDNS. Thanks again, cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: The mailer answers 220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix when telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ... You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both forwards and reverse --- mail.cruwe.de IN A 188.40.164.98 98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa IN PTR mail.cruwe.de That's the thing the FreeBSD mail servers look for[*]. You don't need an A record for cruwe.de at all (at least, not for the purposes of sending e-mail) MX records are all that is required so that addresses of the form @cruwe.de will work: cruwe.de IN MX 10 mail.cruwe.de Cheers, Matthew [*] This HELO name doesn't have to be anything to do with the e-mail addresses you use, so you could take the lazy path and use vs532.sys-central.de for this purpose seeing as it already has the correct forward and reverse mappings. Mind you, that means you won't be able to insert SPF records or other e-mail related bits as the zone doesn't belong to you. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
2011-06-19 08:22, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: The mailer answers 220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix when telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ... You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both forwards and reverse --- No. Our mailserver does not resolve DNS/rDNS and I can send mail without problems to freebsd.org. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On 19/06/2011 13:03, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2011-06-19 08:22, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: The mailer answers 220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix when telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ... You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both forwards and reverse --- No. Our mailserver does not resolve DNS/rDNS and I can send mail without problems to freebsd.org. reverse dns is definately a good thing to have in place if you want your mail to be accepted by remote MTA's. I didn't see the OP post an error message in this thread, that would be a good place to start. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:13:22 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 19/06/2011 13:03, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2011-06-19 08:22, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: The mailer answers 220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix when telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ... You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both forwards and reverse --- No. Our mailserver does not resolve DNS/rDNS and I can send mail without problems to freebsd.org. reverse dns is definately a good thing to have in place if you want your mail to be accepted by remote MTA's. I didn't see the OP post an error message in this thread, that would be a good place to start. Thanks for all the effort ... somehow, posting an error message was the *one* thing I forgot: Jun 19 14:23:37 mail postfix/smtp[9416]: CE6A019C50: to=freebsd-t...@freebsd.org, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25, delay=944, delays=943/0.03/0.86/0.19, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [188.40.164.98] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Thanks again, cheers -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
Thanks for all the effort ... somehow, posting an error message was the *one* thing I forgot: Jun 19 14:23:37 mail postfix/smtp[9416]: CE6A019C50: to=freebsd-t...@freebsd.org, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25, delay=944, delays=943/0.03/0.86/0.19, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [188.40.164.98] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Thanks again, cheers I'm not that familiar with postfix, but the issue does look rdns related. Under sendmail, on hosts with multiple names you have to make sure the hostname it uses to make the connection is the one that all your reverse dns is setup for. (your rdns does resolve backwards and forwards , but the ptr cruwe.de is possibly not what your mail server advertises its hostname with ( not neccesarily the same when you telnet in the make an incoming conn). #dig -x 188.40.164.98 +short cruwe.de If you mail me direct i can tell you what hostname i see, thats the one i'd try adding the rdns for. Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:12:46 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: Thanks for all the effort ... somehow, posting an error message was the *one* thing I forgot: Jun 19 14:23:37 mail postfix/smtp[9416]: CE6A019C50: to=freebsd-t...@freebsd.org, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25, delay=944, delays=943/0.03/0.86/0.19, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [188.40.164.98] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Thanks again, cheers I'm not that familiar with postfix, but the issue does look rdns related. Under sendmail, on hosts with multiple names you have to make sure the hostname it uses to make the connection is the one that all your reverse dns is setup for. (your rdns does resolve backwards and forwards , but the ptr cruwe.de is possibly not what your mail server advertises its hostname with ( not neccesarily the same when you telnet in the make an incoming conn). #dig -x 188.40.164.98 +short cruwe.de If you mail me direct i can tell you what hostname i see, thats the one i'd try adding the rdns for. Paul. I have asked my provider to set rDNS for 188.40.164.98 to cruwe.de, which he has, and changed the $myhostname to cruwe.de (was mail.cruwe.de before). Currently, I am waiting for DNS to permeate to the caches and will try with freebsd-test@ again tomorrow. Thanks again, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( I usually send mail from the domain cruwe.de with the mail-server mail.cruwe.de. My configration is as such, that $ host cruwe.de cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. and $ host mail.cruwe.de mail.cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 mail.cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. Now, $ dig cruwe.de ; DiG 9.6.3 cruwe.de ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32046 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;cruwe.de. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: cruwe.de. 300 IN A 188.40.164.98 ;; Query time: 73 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 18 17:51:14 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42 is right and [chris@dijkstra:~]$ dig -x 188.40.164.98 ; DiG 9.6.3 -x 188.40.164.98 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40136 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa.IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa. 267 IN PTR cruwe.de. ;; Query time: 10 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 18 17:51:48 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 66 seems to be OK. Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue? Thank you, cheers -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( I usually send mail from the domain cruwe.de with the mail-server mail.cruwe.de. My configration is as such, that $ host cruwe.de cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. and $ host mail.cruwe.de mail.cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 mail.cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. Now, $ dig cruwe.de ; DiG 9.6.3 cruwe.de ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32046 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;cruwe.de. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: cruwe.de. 300 IN A 188.40.164.98 ;; Query time: 73 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 18 17:51:14 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42 is right and [chris@dijkstra:~]$ dig -x 188.40.164.98 ; DiG 9.6.3 -x 188.40.164.98 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40136 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa.IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa. 267 IN PTR cruwe.de. ;; Query time: 10 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 18 17:51:48 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 66 seems to be OK. Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue? Thank you, cheers -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On 6/18/11 11:53 AM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( And yet, yet, yet, here is your mail. In duplicate no less. Next time please: 1) tell us what you actually mean by will not reach 2) keep in mind that some mailing lists greylist incoming mail In other words, be specific and patient. --Jon Radel j...@radel.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:53:57 AM Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( I usually send mail from the domain cruwe.de with the mail-server mail.cruwe.de. My configration is as such, that $ host cruwe.de cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. and $ host mail.cruwe.de mail.cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 mail.cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. [snip] seems to be OK. Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue? Thank you, cheers What does you mailer return as the hostname? (Not the box on which your mailer is runing, but the mail server itself. Often it can be set seperately.) The FreeBSD lists are picky about having that match the DNS entries for your domain. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:57:08 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: On Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:53:57 AM Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I have a problem with my mail-server configuration so that mail sent will not reach any freebsd adresses. The solutions offered in similar mails already accessible via various archives did not help :-( I usually send mail from the domain cruwe.de with the mail-server mail.cruwe.de. My configration is as such, that $ host cruwe.de cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. and $ host mail.cruwe.de mail.cruwe.de has address 188.40.164.98 mail.cruwe.de mail is handled by 10 mail.cruwe.de. [snip] seems to be OK. Does anyone have an idea what could be the issue? Thank you, cheers What does you mailer return as the hostname? (Not the box on which your mailer is runing, but the mail server itself. Often it can be set seperately.) The FreeBSD lists are picky about having that match the DNS entries for your domain. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I am not entirely sure what you mean with what the mailer returns as hostname. The setup is as such, that cruwe.de is a FreeBSD box and mail.cruwe.de is a jail on cruwe.de, to which the mail ports are forwarded by packet filter. Both cruwe.de and mail.cruwe.de are addressed with A records. The mailer answers 220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix when telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname. I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ... $ dig mail.cruwe.de ; DiG 9.4.3-P4 mail.cruwe.de ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2343 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mail.cruwe.de. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.cruwe.de. 168 IN A 188.40.164.98 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 83.133.84.53#53(83.133.84.53) ;; WHEN: Sun Jun 19 00:15:13 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47 $dig -x 188.40.164.98 ; DiG 9.4.3-P4 -x 188.40.164.98 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23225 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa.IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 98.164.40.188.in-addr.arpa. 57111 INPTR vs532.sys-central.de. ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 83.133.84.53#53(83.133.84.53) ;; WHEN: Sun Jun 19 00:16:08 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 78 (The server is a rented virtual machine.) Am I right that I need to set the rDNS of 188.40.164.98 to mail.cruwe.de to make the freebsd.org servers accept my mail or that, should I set the rDNS to cruwe.de, I should make the mailer on mail.cruwe.de identify itself as cruwe.de instead of mail.cruwe.de? Anyway, thank you very much for your help, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to reach bsd-lists via mail
--As of June 19, 2011 12:29:02 AM +0200, Christopher J. Ruwe is alleged to have said: (The server is a rented virtual machine.) Am I right that I need to set the rDNS of 188.40.164.98 to mail.cruwe.de to make the freebsd.org servers accept my mail or that, should I set the rDNS to cruwe.de, I should make the mailer on mail.cruwe.de identify itself as cruwe.de instead of mail.cruwe.de? Anyway, thank you very much for your help, --As for the rest, it is mine. In postfix, the relevant setting is 'myhostname' in main.cf for the hostname. From my experience, it doesn't have to match the rDNS. It needs to match the MX record. But, you should be able to see what they are saying as a rejection notice from your logs. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
