From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 10 19:44:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22549 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 19:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com ([210.145.37.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22458 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 19:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03046; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805110140.SAA03046@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unexpected behaviour from pdksh. Comments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 11:13:19 +0930." <19980511111319.M7546@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:40:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 20:58:08 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I seem to be unable to send mail to brian@Awfulhak.org... I'm not > > sure why. > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... while talking to awfulhak.org.: > >>>> RCPT To: > > <<< 550 ... we do not relay jwd@unx.sas.com > > 550 ... User unknown > > You are trying to send mail via a system that doesn't want to do it > for you. You've left out the name of the system in the message above, > but I'd recommend that you stop trying to use it. Actually, no. This is attepting to deliver to the destination system, and if you look at the transcript, it tells you who the system is. The rejection comes from the *target* system. This is a problem with the current anti-relaying sendmail rules - I am having inordinate difficulty delivering mail from my dialup here in japan due to this. Eg. antipodes:~>telnet awfulhak.org smtp Trying 195.82.107.8... Connected to awfulhak.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 tele1.inweb.co.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.5; Mon, 11 May 1998 02:41:41 GMT EHLO antipodes.cdrom.com 250-tele1.inweb.co.uk Hello [210.145.37.178], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 10000000 250-DSN 250-ONEX 250-ETRN 250-XUSR 250 HELP MAIL from: msmith@freebsd.org 250 msmith@freebsd.org... Sender ok RCPT to: brian@awfulhak.org 550 brian@awfulhak.org... we do not relay msmith@freebsd.org RCPT to: 550 ... we do not relay msmith@freebsd.org -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message