Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:28:39 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Sending Mail With Postfix Message-ID: <20080520032838.GB1571@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <D730FF163CD955A882597EE9@Macintosh.local> References: <1211239052.24579.1254029483@webmail.messagingengine.com> <27CE98CC-346E-4051-A745-1F47DEF0760B@mac.com> <20080520021525.GA1571@shepherd> <D730FF163CD955A882597EE9@Macintosh.local>
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* Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> [05-19-2008]: > Macintosh:~ pauls$ telnet my.mywebsite.com 25 > Trying 209.181.247.105... > Connected to nullmx.mywebsite.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 nullmx SMTP > EHLO testing.mydomain.com > 220 Hello > quit > 220 Buh-bye! > Connection closed by foreign host > > Why "nullmx.mywebsite.com"? Which resolves to an entirely different IP > address. Perhaps the admin routes all port 25 traffic to nullmx. > So I've got no idea why he's having this problem, unless it's because the > MX record doesn't point to my.mywebsite.com. Pure conjecture, but I think in trying to avoid exposing his machine's real hostname, he just wrote my.mywebsite.com, which just so happens to be an actual hostname. Otherwise, I am similarly perplexed. -- Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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