Help with email issues
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Nov 21 00:41:22 UTC 2008
Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me with some strange email issues.
>
>
> I can send emails to most anyone except for the postgresql email lists. I've
> pinged 'em several times - even the list admins but I dont think my mails are
> getting through.
>
> At one point I tried to send an email to the list and I got this message back:
>
>
> =====================================
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at outboundproxy6.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <pgsql-admin at postgresql.org>:
> 200.46.204.86 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 504 5.5.2 <outboundproxy6>: Helo command rejected: need
> fully-qualified hostname
> Giving up on 200.46.204.86.
>
> --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message.
>
In this particular case it seems that mail.postgresql.org
(200.46.204.86) is unhappy with the SMTP helo issued by
outboundproxy6.bluehost.com (74.220.195.74). If I read the message
correctly outboundproxy6 is sending "helo outboundproxy6" and not "helo
outboundproxy6.bluehost.com". And mail.postgresql.org is configured to
reject.
Look at this....
[egreshko at misty ~]$ telnet 200.46.204.86 25
Trying 200.46.204.86...
Connected to mail.postgresql.org (200.46.204.86).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.postgresql.org ESMTP Postfix
helo misty
250 mail.postgresql.org
mail from:<e.greshko at greshko.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to:<pgsql-admin at postgresql.org>
504 5.5.2 <misty>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname
rset
250 2.0.0 Ok
helo misty.greshko.com
250 mail.postgresql.org
mail from:<e.greshko at greshko.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to:<pgsql-admin at postgresql.org>
450 4.7.1 <pgsql-admin at postgresql.org>: Recipient address rejected:
Greylisted for 5 minutes
rset
250 2.0.0 Ok
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
So, the problem would be with the configuration on
outboundproxy6.bluehost.com.
> =====================================
>
>
> I did some google searches and found lots of messages like this (they all
> seem to be related to this 200.46.204.86 IP):
>
>
> Can you perhaps track it down through the logfiles on the MX machine,
> using the ESMTP id of the last hop out of postgresql.org/hub.org?
>
> Since it appears to be a mail hosting company who *also* happens to use
> postini/google for their antispam, it can be pretty much any domainname
> at all, I think... And we can't very well null-route any address who
> uses postini as their relayers, becuase loads of legit users do that...
>
> //Magnus
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> I just checked the lists, and find nothing for mi8/postini or obsmtp.com ...
>> even checked globally (all lists), and nothing ...
>>
>> And its all keyed on the From, which is Magnus ... I could ban him from the
>> list? :)
>>
>> This is where the duplicate checksum'ng is meant to come into play, but we
>>
> have
>
>> it disabled, for obvious reasons (key one: automated scripts that use the
>>
> same
>
>> commit message each time would then ben conssitently rejected) ...
>>
>>
>> --On Friday, June 27, 2008 23:56:58 -0400 Tom Lane
>>
> <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>>> Is there a way to not only purge the lists of these bozos, but prevent
>>> future signups? I've not only had enough of seeing them duplicating
>>> posts onto the lists, I've had much more than enough of mail bounces
>>> originating in their forging my address as envelope sender for such
>>> regurgitations. I suppose everyone else who posts to the lists gets
>>> the same. It's past time for a zero tolerance policy.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane
>>>
>
>
> I did a ping on my mail server :
>
> $ ping mail.kevinkempterllc.com
> PING kevinkempterllc.com (69.89.20.54) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from box54.bluehost.com (69.89.20.54): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=84.5
> ms
>
>
> and I checked the main IP my firewall is getting from comcast
>
> neither of them is anything like the 200.46.204.86 IP
>
> I'm pretty good with Linux but I'm more of a DBA - the email/network areas are
> far far from my skill set
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
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