On 2002-04-24 at 17:18 -0700, Don Hammer wrote:
> I am running exim 3.3x and I am getting a SMTP command timeout on connection
> error on incoming messages. This only appears to happen if the sender
> address does not contain an @ symbol in the address. E.G. user@???
> works but mx2.mail.yahoo.com does not. Any ideas on what could be causing
> this.
The broken address?
"mx2.mail.yahoo.com" is not a valid email address. Is the client not
noticing the refusal? What happens if you talk to the SMTP port
directly?
$ telnet the.host 25
Trying a.b.c.d...
Connected to the.host.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 the.host ESMTP blah blah
EHLO my.host.name <---- this from you
250 blah
MAIL FROM:<> <---- this from you
250 <> is syntactically correct
RCPT TO:<mx2.mail.yahoo.com> <---- this from you
550 Unknown local part mx2.mail.yahoo.com in <mx2.mail.yahoo.com>
QUIT <---- this from you
221 the.host closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
$
Do you get something other than a 550 response to that RCPT TO ?
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