From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 16:54:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A5A37B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2E343EC2 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7A9625194E; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:52:50 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:52:50 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: lewiz Cc: Harry Tabak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com> <20021228223230.GD2528@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021228223230.GD2528@lewiz.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: >> Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) >> gets rejected. >> _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] > > I'm getting this all the time too. It seems that after a while my mails > just get through anyway. In fact, just now they've been getting through > first time. I'm sure my DNS is all messed up but it seems odd it gets > through after a few retries -- is that part of the filter? If it's > persistent, let it in? No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail is delivered. > Does anybody know when this was implemented? It's been around for some years. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message