On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:36:07PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Could someone explain to me what these two logfile entries mean?
>
> I suspect that the first (incoming) entry means that the sender's
> machine is misconfigured. Is this a spammer?
> 2007-08-13 13:30:28 rejected EHLO from 69-20-163-167.static.ida.net [69.20.163.167]: syntactically invalid argument(s): svr_mail.bmc.local
More likely it's an MS Exchange box with a not-particularly-diligent
administrator. "_" is not a valid character in host names, and ".local" is
not a "real" TLD.
> I am in contact with the webhost admin for the second (outgoing) but he
> has not been able to explain why his machine won't talk to me.
> 2007-08-13 13:24:43 1IKdeb-000090-QK mail.lpnc.org [72.52.189.60] Connection refused
> 2007-08-13 13:24:43 1IKdeb-000090-QK == webmaster@??? R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused
Well, sounds like you're on top of that one. Good luck!
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