Re: [nottingham] Bouncing mail problem

From: Andy Brown (nlug@jester.nu)
Date: Fri 08 Mar 2002 - 16:41:01 GMT


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Ted wrote:

>Andy Brown writes:
>> 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
>
>Not sure what your looking at there Andy. Is it my line-wrapping?
>This was all one line in the error message - I'll let you decide how to
>wrap it:-)
>
>> SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<ted@nowtsfree.freeserve.co.uk> SIZE=20546:

Ah, yes, that'd be it.

>
>This was the next line:
>
>> host mailq.totalise.co.uk [217.197.192.143]: 550 Invalid MAIL FROM
>
>I'm thinking that mailq.totalise.co.uk might have some sort junk-busting
>block on dynamic IPs that dont resolve to the Sender's domain. So when it
>sees this: (again, I let you line-wrap it)
>
>> Received: from modem-179.vanadium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.22.179] helo=marimba.home.net)
>
>it freaks out. Is this plausible?

It certainly is plausible.
Not accepting from machines where forward & reverse DNS don't match is
a little heavy handed, but not unheard of.

-- 
Andy Brown

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