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cra@west> sendmail -v rexem@???
From: devnull@???
Subject: Testing per Exim-Users Post
This is a test.
.
LOG: MAIN
<= cra@??? U=cra P=local S=326
Connecting to mail.japplications.net [68.146.225.144]:25 ... connected
SMTP<< 220 japplications.net ESMTP Exim 4.22 Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:31:10 -0600
SMTP>> EHLO west.bigfatpipe.net
SMTP<< 250-japplications.net Hello west.bigfatpipe.net [63.105.30.32]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<cra@???> SIZE=1359
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<rexem@???>
SMTP>> DATA
SMTP<< 250 OK
SMTP<< 250 Accepted
SMTP<< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
SMTP<< 250 OK id=19uGrx-0003uj-2s
SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
=> rexem@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mail.japplications.net [68.146.225.144]
LOG: MAIN
Completed
cra@west> ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Jan 31 2002 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/exim
cra@west>
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Note that a) we are running exim, even though I habitually called it as
sendmail and b) this does not rule out a firewall configuration issue for
connections coming from the vicinity of Tabor's address.
-CA
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Trevor Howe wrote:
> Can anyone else try telnetting in? I telnetted in from a friends house and I
> have a friend from another city telnet in to. So I dont believe it to be my
> firewall settings. I believe it to be exim rejecting it if its from a
> certain hosts. The mail that gets thru from my friends sendmail is
> @localhost.my.domain which exim might looking at and thinking its a local
> address. There is nothing in mainlog or rejectlog about the mail I send
> from my ISP server. I have telnetted into my ISP smtp server and run the
> Mail From, RCPT To, and Data commands to send an email to my
> japplications.net account they all said ok but the mail never showed up.
> Telnetting in to my smtp (mail.japplications.net) and doing the same thing
> works of course.
>
> TIA
>
> Trevor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???>
> To: "Trevor Howe" <reXem@???>
> Cc: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Very odd problem -- Only recieves from sendmail
>
>
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:39:13AM -0600,
> > Trevor Howe <rexem@???> is thought to have said:
> >
> > > The address you can try sending to is rexem@??? I told
> what is
> > > going on. I accepts mail from my friends BSD sendmail client which is on
> an
> > > outside network. So it is accepting mail from external networks. But
> only
> > > if its sent from sendmail. If he tries to send thru his ISP smtp server
> > > thru Windows client it doesnt work.
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx japplications.net
> > ;; global options: printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38631
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;japplications.net. IN MX
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > japplications.net. 7200 IN MX 0 mail.japplications.net.
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > japplications.net. 7200 IN NS ns14.zoneedit.com.
> > japplications.net. 7200 IN NS ns15.zoneedit.com.
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> a mail.japplications.net
> > ;; global options: printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25880
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;mail.japplications.net. IN A
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > mail.japplications.net. 6956 IN A 68.146.225.144
> >
> > 31 [pulse][2:02pm][twells]> telnet 68.146.225.144 25
> > Trying 68.146.225.144...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
> >
> > Well it looks like you're firewalling connections to that IP to me. I
> tried
> > from 3 different backbones and all of the connections timeout at:
> >
> > 16 rd1so-pos10-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.71.130) 125.558 ms 101.898 ms
> 85.362 ms
> > 17 cr1no.cg.shawcable.net (64.59.130.138) 105.408 ms 104.288 ms
> 120.505 ms
> > 18 * * *
> >
> > I suggest you check your firewall config or talk to your ISP. This isn't
> an
> > exim problem.
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Tabor J. Wells twells@???
> > Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
> >
> > --
> >
> > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim
> details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
> >
>
>
> --
>
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
>
>
-- Christopher R. Allen ---- cra@??? --
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