Re: [nottingham] Bouncing mail problem

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Sat 09 Mar 2002 - 00:51:43 GMT


On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Ted wrote:

Have you tried using freeserve's SMTP relay to get around any reverse DNS
issues? Urgh it might be, but urgh it might work.

I always leave ident ("auth") open anyway and believe that it's a Good
Thing(tm). You do use IRC right! :-)

> Is the complaint about the SIZE= bit, as if it's part of the MAIL FROM?

No idea; best thing would be to have NetCat listen on port 25 so that you
can pretend to be the /receiving/ mail server; and see what your setup is
actually sending out.

> Anyone happen to know which rfc I should read about this before I start
> googling again?

Probably our friend, RFC821, and RFC1870 for the SIZE extension.
(Just Google for "rfc smtp" or something).

        -Paul

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Nottingham, GB

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