Re: [nottingham] Bouncing mail problem

From: Andy Brown (nlug@jester.nu)
Date: Fri 08 Mar 2002 - 14:19:18 GMT


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Ted wrote:

>Hi folks, I wonder whether you can help me sort out a little
>email problem I have. I use a dialup line from home, with
>Postfix as the MTA and freeserve as the ISP.
>
>I suspect something on my machine may be wrongly set up, because
>sometimes I get bounces such as this one:
>
>> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@mailcore.pol.net.uk>
>> To: ted@nowtsfree.freeserve.co.uk
>>
>> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>>
>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>>
>> heike@totalise.co.uk
>> SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<ted@nowtsfree.freeserve.co.uk
>> > SIZE=20546:
>> host mailq.totalise.co.uk [217.197.192.143]: 550 Invalid MAIL FROM

You seem to have gained a whole bucketload of spaces on the end of
your domain there. This /may/ be causing the problem, as it might not
then resolve correctly (or does having spaces break the RFC?)

-- 
Andy Brown

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