This is a problem I know. It may happen both in 2.2 and 2.3: during
startup James attempts to get the name of the local computer to use in
the helo string. For some strange reason the thread that does this work
may do it later than needed by the RemoteDelivery mailet, and in such
case the mailet will use 'localhost'. To avoid it there is a time wait
of some seconds (I think 60), but it may not be enough.
When it happened to me I made a patch to RemoteDelivery to accept a name
hardcoded in config.xml, but never applied such patch to the official
James code.
Please report it to jira and I will prepare such patch.
In the meantime, check the following: one reason for the problem to
occur is having lots of messages sitting in inboxes or repositories; in
this case the timing problem we are talking about may occur. Get rid of
such messages and the problem will disappear.
Hope it helps,
Vincenzo
Chris Lindley wrote:
Hi,
We've been using James 2.2 for a while now but recently upgraded to
2.3.0.
Shortly after the upgrade we were listed on the CBL (cbl.abuseat.org)
block list apparently because our mail server sends "localhost" as the
HELO when doing RemoteDelivery. We have tried pretty much everything to
specify the domain name - short of patching the class to hard code the
domain. We've followed all of CBL's suggestions and found
notes about the <bind> tag to RemoteDelivery, but mail is still being
sent out with the HELO of "localhost" (see mail headers) so CBL will not
de-list us.
Please help as we have a lot of people relying on this mail server!
Is this a common issue? Or is there something strange about our server?
I've attached the current configuration - please advise us on what we
need to do to get RemoteDelivery to send "mail.zuuk.com" rather than
"localhost" as the Helo.
Thanks,
Chris Lindley
ZUUK Ltd.
P.S.
Here's what the machine reports for it's network settings:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:63:C7:A1:80
inet addr:217.160.216.106 Bcast:217.160.216.106
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:962181 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:536519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:186222421 (177.5 Mb) TX bytes:263581321 (251.3 Mb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:363067 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:363067 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:175534872 (167.4 Mb) TX bytes:175534872 (167.4 Mb)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a
Linux mail.zuuk.com 2.4.18-10custom #1 SMP Fri Feb 7 12:31:28 CET
2003 i686 unknown
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