I tested some of the address that I have problems with. The responses that I
am getting to different addresses to the RCPT TO: is
501 RCPT TO Syntax Error in Address <mail.advf.com>
553 Mail to/from mx2.mail.yahoo.com not allowed
553 badly formatted address
553 No domain specified
One of the address that failed according to the log file gave me back a 250.
Thanks for your help
Don Hammer
Network Administrator
Evanite Fiber Corporation
1115 SE Crystal Lake Dr
Corvallis, OR 97333
(541) 753-0391 voice
(541) 753-0388 fax
hammerd@???
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Pennock [
mailto:Phil.Pennock@globnix.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:02 PM
To: Don Hammer
Cc: Exim-Users@Exim. Org
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP command timeout error.
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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