Evolution sending hassles

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Dec 19 10:12:49 PST 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 13:06, Byron Schlemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 19:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > We will need to see the full binary capture file to see what's going on.
> 
> Well I sent this privately to pav@ and I think we've kinda agreed that
> it is an ISP issue. Basically it seems that for some reason the one box
> always manages to connect to a specific server in my ISPs round-robin
> cluster of servers and sends okay, the other always seems to connect to
> one that returns 550 error. Which I must be honest an say I find really
> freaky, here follows the email I sent in private to pav@
> 
> Hmm interesting results. Here is the chat from the failed transfer using
> Evolution 1.4.5 :

Time Warner had problems similar to this a while back.  I had to start
using my own host as my mailer for a while until they sorted it out. 
You might want to try connecting to ctb-mesg6.saix.net directly via a
SMART_HOST.

Joe

> 
> 220 ctb-mesg3.saix.net ESMTP Postfix
> EHLO [192.168.0.4]
> 250-ctb-mesg3.saix.net
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 102400000
> 250-ETRN
> 250 8BITMIME
> MAIL FROM:<byrons at telkomsa.net>
> 250 Ok
> RCPT TO:<byrons at dewey.motorvia.co.za>
> 250 Ok
> DATA
> 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
> Subject: Test
> From: Byron Schlemmer <byrons at telkomsa.net>
> To: byrons at dewey.motorvia.co.za
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Message-Id: <1071836578.265.0.camel at hammer.home>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:07:15 +0200
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> test
> 
> .
> 550 Error: 550 Open Relay  Ref:1
> QUIT
> 221 Bye
> 
> Here is the one that works :
> 
> 220 ctb-mesg6.saix.net ESMTP Postfix
> EHLO [192.168.0.3]
> 250-ctb-mesg6.saix.net
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 102400000
> 250-ETRN
> 250 8BITMIME
> MAIL FROM:<byrons at telkomsa.net>
> 250 Ok
> RCPT TO:<byrons at dewey.motorvia.co.za>
> 250 Ok
> DATA
> 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
> Subject: Test
> From: Byron Schlemmer <byrons at telkomsa.net>
> To: byrons at dewey.motorvia.co.za
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Message-Id: <1071846401.758.129.camel at nemesis.home>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:06:41 +0200
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> Test
> -- 
> 
>         Byron
> 
> .
> 250 Ok: queued as D77087EC5
> RSET
> 250 Ok
> QUIT
> 221 Bye
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