[xmail] Can't sent external e-mails

2003-07-12 Thread Hamilton Thurgood
I can't figure out what I've done wrong with my set-up I can receive external emails and can send internal e-mails but can't send out external e-mails below is the message I am getting. At the same time for every internal e-mail I send I receive a copy of the same e-mail even though

[xmail] Re: CheckMailerDomain and HELO/EHLO parameters

2003-07-12 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Tracy wrote: Greetings, I've been poking around in the code a little, and I would like to see if I understand the current checks that are enabled by the CheckMailerDomain flag in server.tab. As I understand it, the parameter to HELO/EHLO is treated as a domain name,

[xmail] Re: CheckMailerDomain and HELO/EHLO parameters

2003-07-12 Thread Tracy
At 15:45 7/12/2003, Davide Libenzi wrote: As I understand it, the parameter to HELO/EHLO is treated as a domain name, and an MX lookup is done on that domain. If *any* MX record is returned, processing continues. If *no* MX records are returned, then an A lookup is done. If an A record is

[xmail] Cleanest writeup I've seen of the proposal that is being worked on

2003-07-12 Thread Tracy
This is forwarded from another mailing list So the algorithm would become, I think: Suppose the IP 1.2.3.4 identifies using HELO (or EHLO) as outmx.example.com: 1) Lookup MX records for outmx.example.com. If the IP address of one of the returned MX hostnames is 1.2.3.4, mark as DHVP

[xmail] Re: CheckMailerDomain and HELO/EHLO parameters

2003-07-12 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Tracy wrote: OK, what I wanted to propose is having a flag that will: 1) Take the name supplied on the HELO/EHLO and 2) Attempt to retrieve all MX records for that name - if the name supplied is not a valid DNS name, or there are no MX records for the name, fail. 3)