I am no sendmail expert, but does 553 not mean "Relaying denied" ?? So you have an error message from sendmail.
thats why i was confused, because normally i always get a "relaying denied" message. as well as the error code.
but in any case, i figured out the reason. sendmail only permitted use of user/domain combinations listed in virtusertable. if i used an address not in there, i got the >error< problem.
but i dont understand why this is the case. some new anti-spam feature? normally sendmail has always allowed me to claim to be whoever i want, so long as i came from IPs allowed in relay.
anyway i thought virtusertable only affected incoming mail, but i guess i was wrong.
Enno
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:52, urgrue wrote: > i normally test our mail servers using a telnet to port 25. but > something is very different about one mail server. our client hasnt > complained so im assuming the mail server works. but if i telnet in, > when i get to MAIL FROM: blah@xxxxxxxxxx, the response is simply: > 553 5.3.0 blah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >blah<@domain.com. > > what does >this< mean? > > any attempt to move on to RCPT TO: results in a need MAIL before RCPT > error. > > "blah" and "domain.com" are legitimate, genuine user/domain run by this > mail server. this error does not happen if i "send" the mail as > user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > its hard to look up an explanation of the error when there is no error > message... > can anyone explain this? > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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