[linux-help] Re: strange mail problem

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find this interesting:

ssaner-jupiter% telnet mail.lloydnet.org 25
Trying 66.152.97.37...
Connected to mail.lloydnet.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail04.powweb.com ESMTP Postfix
helo jupiter.hubris.net
250 mail04.powweb.com
mail from: <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxx>
250 Ok
rcpt to: <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
250 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
This is a test
.
250 Ok: queued as 65874FFBAE
quit
221 Bye


Did you get my test message? mail.lloydnet.org seemed to happily
accept my message to your stratitec.com address. That indicates to me
that it either thinks that it should handle stratitec.com mail, or it
is acting as an open relay (both of which are bad).

I think it may be time to talk to your hosting provider and see what
their logs are saying.

Steve


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:33:01AM -0600, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:14, Steven Saner wrote:
> > Is there any chance that mail.lloydnet.org believes that it is
> > supposed to handle the stratitec.com domain?
> 
> not that i know of ... *.lloydnet.org is hosted with powweb.com and DNS
> is hosted at datility ...  stratitec.com is hosted locally here at work
> (just down the hall from me, actually) ... 
> 
> 
> > This would explain the
> > behavior. Basically if when mail got to mail.lloydnet.org, if it
> > determined that it was supposed to deliver that message locally or
> > handle it in some way, then it would never try to send it to either of
> > the MXs for stratitec.com.
> 
> that makes sense, but mail.stratitec.com has nothing to do with powweb
> what-so-ever ... i have root access to mail.stratitec.com, but only have
> very limited access to mail.lloydnet.org ... 
> 
> this just recently started (in the past day or two) ... the only config
> that's changed on mail.stratitec.com was the aliases file (which appears
> to be good) on the 4th and i haven't changed any settings that i have
> access to on lloydnet.org in months ...  also, others have recently
> reported problems where people have supposedly sent them e-mail, but it
> never arrived (i haven't had a chance to dig into those reports much
> yet)...
> 
> thanks,
> -g-
> 
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