Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:07:21 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Sending Mail With Postfix Message-ID: <20080520040720.GD1571@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <20080520032838.GB1571@shepherd> References: <1211239052.24579.1254029483@webmail.messagingengine.com> <27CE98CC-346E-4051-A745-1F47DEF0760B@mac.com> <20080520021525.GA1571@shepherd> <D730FF163CD955A882597EE9@Macintosh.local> <20080520032838.GB1571@shepherd>
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* Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> [05-19-2008]: > * Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> [05-19-2008]: > > > Macintosh:~ pauls$ telnet my.mywebsite.com 25 > > Trying 209.181.247.105... > > Connected to nullmx.mywebsite.com. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > 220 nullmx SMTP > > EHLO testing.mydomain.com > > 220 Hello > > quit > > 220 Buh-bye! > > Connection closed by foreign host > > > > Why "nullmx.mywebsite.com"? Which resolves to an entirely different IP > > address. > > Perhaps the admin routes all port 25 traffic to nullmx. Actually, I am wrong here. This is happening on your machine because you are using telnet on OS X Leopard: http://chip-miller.net/2008/03/14/solving-a-dns-mystery-on-os-x/ Try telnet from a FreeBSD (or any other) machine, and you will get: # telnet my.mywebsite.com 25 Trying 208.87.33.150... telnet: connect to address 208.87.33.150: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host -- Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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