Help - where to report posting problem
Dick Davies
rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Tue Apr 20 06:34:00 PDT 2004
* Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> [0430 12:30]:
> Stephen Liu wrote:
> >Hi Bill,
> >
> >Tks for your response.
> >
> >A sample of the rejected emails is as follow;
> >
> >
> >Your message
> >
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Question on Anti-Virus Firewal
> > Sent: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:59:15 +0800
> >
> >did not reach the following recipient(s):
> >
> >freebsd-question at freebsd.org on Sun, 18 Apr 2004
> >01:08:28 +0800
> > The e-mail system was unable to deliver the
> >message, but did not
> >report a specific reason. Check the address and try
> >again. If it still
> >fails, contact your system administrator.
> > <popimap02.icare.priv #4.0.0 smtp;450 Client host
> >rejected: cannot
> >find your hostname, [203.78.64.158]>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Here's your answer. This means that the SMTP server that you
> use as a relay is poorly configured. There is a FAQ entry:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES
>
> Looks like the 4th bullet point applies here. Whoever admins
> that mail server needs to fix the config so it uses a real
> host/domain name in the HELO command, not "popimap02.icare.priv"
You shouldn't be dumping mails based on the contents of HELO though, should
you?
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