Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:17:18 -0700 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail giving me this 550 error? Message-ID: <20070324031718.GA47108@ns.umpquanet.com> In-Reply-To: <7AF042DA-587E-4E7F-AF97-5F6989FA7162@goldmark.org> References: <20070324013200.GA43932@ns.umpquanet.com> <7AF042DA-587E-4E7F-AF97-5F6989FA7162@goldmark.org>
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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
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