Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: plus, you stuff the output in $myfile, and get the input from it as well. How's that supposed to work? :) Heh. You're looking at this section, no doubt: cat

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 January 2003 at 16:16:22 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: plus, you stuff the output in $myfile, and get the input from it as well. How's that supposed to

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-05 16:16, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030: cat $myfile server=`egrep -i $myfile In: [HE][HE]LO|sed 's/^.*LO *//' ` if [ $server = ]; then server=`egrep -i $myfile ^Subject.*errors from |sed

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 16:40:45 +0100: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030:

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: ... For more information, take a look at the following, which is a message I send to systems which appear to be

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 16:40:45 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: ... For more information, take a look at the

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-30 11:26:22 +1030: On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: ... For more information, take a look at the following, which is a message I send to systems which appear to be

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Erik Greenwald
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:03:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: freebsd.org does not care if your reverse DNS mapping points back to the name you identified yourself with, it only checks that the name the server IDs itself as when submitting email resolves to the correct IP address. Many

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: ... For more information, take a look at the following, which is a message I send to systems which appear to be bona fide attempts from broken reverse addresses. Looking at the name of the sender, I'm sure this one is not bona fide, and I

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-28 19:15:49 +0100: Today Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] If 450 is some error code, then it's only a

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default. And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's to a new .map filean block with 554. Postfix's new sender address

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread John Martinez
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 10:06 AM, Len Conrad wrote: ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default. And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's to a new

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 18:46:12 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-29 10:55:11 +1030: ... For more information, take a look at the following, which is a message I send to systems which appear to be bona fide attempts from broken reverse addresses.

What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Harry Tabak
Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] What are the rules for sending mail! I'm not a spammer -- I've never sent spam!!! Your rejection is very disconcerting. Harry

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread rocky
Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] What are the rules for sending mail! I'm not a spammer -- I've never sent spam!!! Your rejection is very

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Harry Tabak
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:50:54 +0100 From: rocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: rocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected.

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] What are the rules for sending mail! I'm not a spammer -- I've

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Len Conrad
Easier said than done. I've been assigned 66.45.116.136/29 by the ISP. .136 is not a power of 2 which is required for classless reverse delegation. It should be .132/29 or .140/29 I control DNS for quadtelecom.com, but I don't control the reverse lookup. I'd like to know the exact

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] If 450 is some error code, then it's only a _temporary_ error/failure (RFC 1893). Maybe the DNS servers

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread lewiz
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] I'm getting this all the time too. It seems that after a while my mails

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 11:27:53 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: Easier said than done. I've been assigned 66.45.116.136/29 by the ISP. .136 is not a power of 2 which is required for classless reverse delegation. They don't need to be powers of 2. It should be .132/29 or .140/29 No,

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +, lewiz wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) gets rejected. _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] I'm

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread John Martinez
On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 04:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail is

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:34:28PM -0500, Fuzzy wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +, lewiz wrote: No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30