> 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 -----
> > <brian@Awfulhak.org>
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to awfulhak.org.:
> >>>> RCPT To:<brian@Awfulhak.org>
> > <<< 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... we do not relay jwd@unx.sas.com
> > 550 <brian@Awfulhak.org>... 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: <brian@awfulhak.org>
550 <brian@awfulhak.org>... we do not relay msmith@freebsd.org
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