postfix problem with talktalk?

[Paul Ward]

That would make sense as his setup is the same as mine, apart from the
internet provider he uses, talktalk are a real pain so I would not be
suprised if they were blocking it.
Is there a way around faking the mail to look like it came from another one
of his email addresses?

On 28/05/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Tim:
> >> That sounds, simply, like it cannot resolve googlemail.com (going by
> >> the last bit of information).  Try looking it up, on that PC,
> >> manually.
> >>
> >> Additionally, I'd be very surprised if googlemail would accept a
> >> message alleging to have come from <root at server.localdomain>.  Most
> >> mail servers will only accept mail coming from valid domain names.
> >> Perhaps that's the "Host not found" issue with that failure message.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Ward wrote:
> > Hi yeah I did that and it cam back at teh time and it came back with a
> > response as follows:
> >
> > [root at server ~]# nslookup googlemail.com
> > ;; reply from unexpected source: 192.168.1.1#2048 , expected
> > 192.168.1.1#53
> > Server:         192.168.1.1
> > Address:        192.168.1.1#53
> >
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > Name:   googlemail.com
> > Address: 66.249.91.83
>
> The different port answering *can* be a problem for some firewalls, but
> otherwise that's okay.
>
> > As for google mail accepting mail from root they do, I use it all the
> > time on my server, good for denyhosts ;)
>
> Hmm, interesting that they do.  Most don't accept bogus domains, it
> helps cut down on spam.  But, on your system that isn't working, now,
> are you sending via the same SMTP server?  It's not just the end
> recipient that *might* refuse fake domains, it's all the SMTP servers it
> goes through.
>
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