On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, ScaryG wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2001 at 12:28, Malcolm Ferguson wrote:
>
> > Your problem that you describe is one of the reasons why I left
> > Sympatico. I kept getting bounce messages frozen in my mail queue.
>
> Using sendmail, this was never a problem.
>
> In fact, I can still quite easily send and receive email since
> switching over to Exim, the only problem are messages caught by the
> filter will not have their warning emails delivered to the original
> sender. It gets rejected by sympatico as a relay attempt.
But, presumably, you are permitted to relay through their server, so why
should they reject you? I still say you have a problem with where you
are relaying mail. If you want, post your entire config, and someone (or
me) will take a closer look.
>
> This really isn't a must-resolve problem. Frankly, if something gets
> caught by the filter, lives frozen for a few days and then gets
> deleted I really don't care. It's just a home machine I use for
> development purposes.
>
> I was just curious and hopeful there was something that needed to be
> changed in the filter.
>
> > Some months ago I looked up the MX record for the sympatico.ca domain.
> > I randomly tried an IP from that (I think it was a bellglobal.com
> > hostname) and found that I could now relay bounce messages.
>
> Yeah, if do a nslookup on smtp1.sympatico.ca I get back 3 different
> IP numbers, but all 3 are rejecting the bounces, I checked the logs.
>
> It's really not a big issue, I'm the only one receiving emails to
> this box so I think I'll just leave it.
>
> Gf.
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