From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 03:17:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E779816A401 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list@museum.rain.com) Received: from ns.umpquanet.com (ns.umpquanet.com [63.105.30.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB33C13C455 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list@museum.rain.com) Received: from ns.umpquanet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.umpquanet.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2O3HJLC061382; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@museum.rain.com) Received: (from james@localhost) by ns.umpquanet.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2O3HIVr061381; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@museum.rain.com) X-Authentication-Warning: ns.umpquanet.com: james set sender to list@museum.rain.com using -f Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:17:18 -0700 From: James Long To: Jeffrey Goldberg Message-ID: <20070324031718.GA47108@ns.umpquanet.com> References: <20070324013200.GA43932@ns.umpquanet.com> <7AF042DA-587E-4E7F-AF97-5F6989FA7162@goldmark.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7AF042DA-587E-4E7F-AF97-5F6989FA7162@goldmark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail giving me this 550 error? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:17:20 -0000 On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:59:34PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Mar 23, 2007, at 8:32 PM, James Long wrote: > > >Why am I getting this 550 error? If I telnet directly to the > >MX for lists.oetiker.ch and perform a manual ehlo/mail from/rcpt to > >I get a 450 greylisting response, > > That is what I get to. > > >which makes much more sense > >than this 550/503 failure. > > For reasons I don't understand your instance of sendmail is *not* > talking to the MX for lists.oetiker.ch. For some reason it is > talking to localhost. Mutt is running on the mailserver. It submits the outgoing mail to localhost. localhost should relay the mail out to the recipient. > So that 550 isn't coming from lists.oetiker.ch, but is coming from > your own host. I realize that, hence my post. The server sends lots of outgoing non-local mail. Just not to the smokeping list subscription address. I had looked at /etc/mail/access prior to posting, but not closely enough. It was being denied by an access map entry. Jim