unable to reach bsd-lists via mail

[Christopher J. Ruwe]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:13:22 +0100
Paul Macdonald <paul at ifdnrg.com> wrote:

> On 19/06/2011 13:03, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> > 2011-06-19 08:22, Matthew Seaman skrev:
> >> On 18/06/2011 23:29, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> >>> The mailer answers "220 mail.cruwe.de ESMTP Postfix" when
> >>> telnet'ed, so I guess that is what the mailer returns as hostname.
> >>>
> >>> I did not know about that DNS/rDNS issue ...
> >>
> >> You need the name your mail server HELOs as to resolve both
> >> forwards and reverse ---
> >
> > No. Our mailserver does not resolve DNS/rDNS and I can send mail
> > without problems to freebsd.org.
> >
> >
> reverse dns is definately a good thing to have in place if you want
> your mail to be accepted by remote MTA's.
> 
> I didn't see the OP post an error message in this thread, that would
> be a good place to start.
> 
> 

Thanks for all the effort ... somehow, posting an error message was the
*one* thing I forgot:

Jun 19 14:23:37 mail postfix/smtp[9416]: CE6A019C50:
to=<freebsd-test at freebsd.org>, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25,
delay=944, delays=943/0.03/0.86/0.19, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host
mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected:
cannot find your hostname, [188.40.164.98] (in reply to RCPT TO
command))

Thanks again, cheers
-- 
Christopher J. Ruwe
TZ GMT + 2

-- 
Christopher J. Ruwe
TZ GMT + 2