On 24/05/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry about the public aspect of this, but I need to get this to Rick W. Rick Welykochy wrote: > Howard Lowndes wrote: > >> ...and me. >> >> BTW Rick, my emailer doesn't like your direct email address. > > Are you referring to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > What's wrong with it? What does you emailer say? Yes, that's the one, and here is the error: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mx1.d2.net.au[202.147.78.66] said: 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (in reply to end of DATA command)
It rather looks as if your mailer is trying a reverse check and can't
find me, which is wrong as my email address works just fine. Of course - the problem is always someone elses fault. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?&domain=lannet.com.au One of your nameservers isn't responding. That's going to cause, at minimum, delays, and in some cases a complete inability to resolve - quite possibly what's happening here. Your MX record is an IP when the RFC stipulates that it must be a name. This will cause RFC-compliant MXes to be unable to send you mail. The IP you stipulate as an MX doesn't have a reverse dns lookup. Checking to see if an IP has a reverse lookup is a common anti-spam technique; not having a reverse lookup means some people are going to refuse mail from you. The report mentions that it couldn't connect to your mailserver. It says this may be a timeout issue, is it times out after only 40 seconds, so mail to your domain may or may not work. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html