On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:45:02PM -0400, did Tabor J. Wells write:
> Umm, it looks pretty clearly to me that if something is misconfigured it's
> on their end. Although, I would take that customized response to mean that
> rahul21@??? is no longer a valid account there.
> Did they give you any reason why they felt it was your issue? Do you get
> the same response emailing postmaster@????
rahul21 *is* a valid user in that domain. I am able to receive emails from
him. BTW, my emails to postmaster@??? bounced too.
When I finally corresponded with one of the admins (cyberspace.org is a
free service run by volunteers) I was told that their "553 One generation
passeth away ..." message was to block spammers (I don't have that email
with me right now) or some such thing.
I posted my question the debian-users mailing list too and someone helped
me fix it. You see, the problem was with my EHLO. Exim's EHLO seemed to
be getting my machine's name from /etc/hosts. My /etc/hosts only had one
entry - for localhost.
When talking to cyberspace.org exim used to say:
SMTP>> EHLO www
SMTP<< 250-grex.cyberspace.org Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202],
pleased to meet you.
I changed my /etc/hosts to:
my.ip.add.ress www.aunet.org www
127.0.0.1 www localhost
and restarted exim and tried again. Now the conversation between exim and
cyberspace.org is:
SMTP>> EHLO www.aunet.org
SMTP<< 250-grex.cyberspace.org Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202],
pleased to meet you
And the test mail goes through.
Oddly, when I was using sendmail as my MTA (with the old /etc/hosts) for a
couple of days my mails to cyberspace.org went through fine. Wonder where
sendmail got its sense of self-identity from.
Thanks.
Thaths
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