[TriLUG] Email sending problem....

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:56:16PM -0400, Mike Johnson spoke thusly:
> I suppose that's the expected behavior.  IE, they're looking to
> get a '250 Ok' when they issue the "MAIL FROM: <>" command.

Which is fine by me - I set thsi box up to be a lot
spam-resistant. The problem is, I only see this if I send mail *TO*
sourceforge, which makes me wonder...

[15:01:20 alchemist]$ telnet users.sourceforge.net 25
Trying 216.136.171.198...
Connected to users.sourceforge.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net ESMTP Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 Mon, 10 Sep
2001 12:06:47 -0700 - SF usw-list mm5
HELO darkcanvas.com
250 usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net Hello midgard.webslingerz.com
[66.45.6.19]
MAIL FROM:<alchemist at darkcanvas.com>
250 <alchemist at darkcanvas.com> is syntactically correct
RCPT TO:<ksonney at users.sourceforge.net>
250 <ksonney at users.sourceforge.net> is syntactically correct
DATA
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Subject: test message

This is a test message
.
550-Envelope sender verification failed
550 rejected: Cannot route to envelope sender
<alchemist at darkcanvas.com> (The envelope sender does not exist
according to your mail server when it was asked): response from
mail.darkcanvas.com [66.45.6.19] after "MAIL FROM: <>" was "554
buildaddr: no host". This does not help fight spam effectively, breaks
RFCs, and prevents you from getting bounces so we can't accept mail
from you
QUIT
221 usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

Ah! So sourceforge check to be sure it's a valid sender by
back-tracking to midgard.darkcanvas.com and trying to send mail - but
they're either ignoring the MAIL FROM listed above, or they are
expecting a header I'm not setting.

Yes, postfix should work - I use it on my laptop, and we sue it at
work, and I can send from there. But I'd rather not upgrade/replace
the mail server on a production system, disrupting a few people
(damagerecords.com being the most important of the bunch!) if I screw
up the conversion...

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