From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 10:42:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twingo.tiscalinet.it (twingo.tiscalinet.it [195.130.224.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2040937BDDC for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcasadei@monrif.net) Received: from an1-493.dialup.tiscalinet.it (62.11.103.237) by twingo.tiscalinet.it; 2 Jul 2000 19:39:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 1919 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jul 2000 17:42:41 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:42:41 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Can't send mail: HELO command rejected Message-ID: <20000702194241.A1910@casimirhost.kasby> References: <20000624151304.25899.qmail@community.monrif.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from sjmudd@pobox.com on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:12:32PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:12:32PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote: > fcasadei@monrif.net writes: > > > Hi all, > > I'm unable to send mail to freebsd-questions mailing list using mutt/qmail. > > freebsd.org uses postfix as a MTA. > > The SMTP exchange when you connect to freebsd.org's mail server > requires that the connecting client identifies itself using the HELO > or EHLO command. > > The name the client uses is supposed to be a Fully Qualified host > name, FQDN which is resolvable by the DNS. The host name which your > machine, or your provider's MTA is using in the HELO command is not > resolvable and for this reason your mail is getting rejected. > > Solution: The SMTP client must identify itself correctly. > > Regards, > > Simon > -- > Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > end of the original message I've modified the script /etc/ppp/ip-up to set /var/qmail/control/helohost and /var/qmail/control/smtproutes with the proper information; it also starts qmail. I've enabled artificial smtp routes because the first attempt made with helohost and maildirsmtp did not work. Unfortunately the second attempt failed, so I've added several folder hooks in .muttrc (one for each maildir): folder-hook monrif 'set sendmail="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject\ -ffcasadei@monrif.net"' ... Needless to say, also the third attempt failed! I've read carefully the error messages returned by the mail system at tin.it and finally I've found the problem: Reporting-MTA: dns; fep24-svc.tin.it Arrival-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:43:59 +0200 Received-From-MTA: dns; a-tr4-36.tin.it (212.216.170.163) Final-Recipient: RFC822; Action: failed Status: 5.2.0 Remote-MTA: dns; freebsd.org Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In fact the reverse DNS lookup on fep24-svc.tin.it fails: casimiro> host fep24-svc.tin.it Host not found. This is the fourth (and the last, I hope) attempt: I try to send this message while connected to Tiscali (and thus using smtp.tiscalinet.it). If you (and me too) see this message then it works!! :-)) Francesco Casadei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message