hello,
I've been trying to send e-mail via exim to people at MIT, but
everything bounces. Here's what I see:
-- snip --
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software
(Exim).
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
failed:
xxxxxx@???
SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host FORT-POINT-STATION.mit.edu [18.7.7.76]: 553 beader hobo
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -----
Return-path: <info@???>
Received: from me ([127.0.0.1] helo=AOLserver)
by me.com with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 17c5Pk-0001L7-00
for <xxxxxx@???>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:34:24 -0400
To: xxxxx@???
From: info@???
Subject: blah blah blah
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:34:24 GMT
Message-Id: 2002-08-06.651157@???
In-Reply-To: info@???
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Encoding: 7bit
...
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I looked up "553 beader hobo" on google and found a sendmail.cf
hosted by MIT, perhaps the one they use, and the following chunk:
...
SCheckMessageId
R< $+ @ $+ > $@ OK
R$* $#error $: 553 beader hobo
...
I don't read sendmail.cfs very often, but this looks like a regexp
that requires < > around the message id field of an incoming message?
The Message-Id: field generated by my exim never has < > around it,
and I'm wondering if this is causing MIT's server to complain? I've
never seen problems like this delivering to any other server.
Has anyone else experienced this incompatibility?
Thanks,
Carl
