On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:16:44PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I have taken this advice and changed it now. Please see for yourself
> if what is given now is okay - telnet to SMTP port of 62.8.64.4
220 ns2.wananchi.com ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:25:27 +0300 [Exim-3.33]
Looks OK, thought you're advertising the MTA and its version number
twice which I find a little odd. :)
> Do you believe that this could cause problems with other MTAs?
> I have one situation that has left me perplexed (maybe that is not the correct
> word to use). Some domain cannot send mail to my end. Whenever users there send
[...]
> > > Your message was not delivered because the destination computer was
> > not reachable within the allowed queue period. The amount of time
(You didn't say after how long the messages time out.)
A hypothesis: that other MTA expects a "220 " single-line greeting from
your server, and treats your original "220-" multi-line greeting as a
form of transient failure. So eventually the messages time out.
Dave
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