Hi all, I hope someone can help.. Over the past few days our XMail system (running on linux) has been receiving thousands (I deleted 31,000 yesterday) emails addressed to unknown users. Below is a sample from one of the emails that ended up in the admin mailbox. Do these messages mean that the mail server will not relay for others, or do they mean that the server will relay, but cannot send to these addresses for 'X' reason? Our XMail server is intended only to be used as a recieving mail server. That is, it accepts incoming email for our domain (and it's four aliases) but nothing else. It then stores these mails in the respective maildir's and allows collection via pop3 by our OfficeTalk server (which then distributes the emails to the users). The server should also be permitted to send bounce messages back to people informing them of any problems with the delivery of their email. (If they tried to send to an invalid user on one of our domains.) Now, I know I've been going on and on about the same point in several messages to this mail list. But I just can't get this thing to bed-down. Please can someone help me here, I'm getting closer to the end of my rope ;) Kind Regards Lee Rich -----------8<----------- -----Original Message----- From: wlga.gov.uk PostMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 07/06/2002 09:01 Subject: Error sending message [1023433832698.61217822.zebedee] from [wlga.gov.uk]
[<01>] Error sending message [1023433832698.61217822.zebedee] from [wlga.gov.uk]. ID: <S24917> Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rcpt To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown [<04>] Here is listed the message log file: [PeekTime] 1023436843 : Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:00:43 +0100 << ErrCode = -82 ErrString = [RCPT TO:] not permitted by remote SMTP server ErrInfo = 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown SMAIL SMTP-Send MX = "atlas.fayettevillepublishing.com." SMTP = "zebedee.lghnet.local" From = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" To = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Failed ! >> [<05>] Here is listed the initial part of the message: Received: from coolbe3907.com (217.33.50.225) by zebedee.lghnet.local with [XMail 1.7 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id <S24917> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 07 Jun 2002 08:09:25 +0100 From: "Interesting Products" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:20:36 -0700 Subject: NEW: find out ANYTHING about ANYONE fast X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----------8<----------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
