Re: potato sendmail vs. hotmail.com

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:21:33PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote:
> hello
> 
> i'm running a potato box with sendmail. one of my users complained that
> whenever somebody tries to send him an e-mail from a hotmail.com address
> (the hotmail web interface), he gets the following error message:
> 
> (e-mail addresses have been changed because of privacy issues)
> 
> ----[ begin ]----
> 
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@buzzer.desire.ch>
> To: <some_user@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:25:00 +0100
> 
> The original message was received at Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:24:50 +0100
> from f230.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.230]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <our_customer@luescher.org>
> 
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mx0.gmx.de.:
> >>>RCPT To:<our_customers_other_address@gmx.net>
> <<< 550 The recipient does not accept mails from 'hotmail.com' over
> foreign
> mailservers
> 550 <our_customer@luescher.org>... User unknown
> 
> ----[ end ]----
> 
> the user has got an e-mail address at gmx.net which forwards his mail to
> our_customer@luescher.org (which is on our server). obviously sendmail
> doesn't like the fact that the hotmail mail is coming from a different
> host. what can i do about this?

It's not a sendmail problem.  It's a GMX.DE problem.  -THEIR- mail
server is refusing it long before it goes to yours.  Complain to them
or have your customer tell people to mail him directly at
'luescher.org' where it is under your control.

-- 
CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall:
#!/usr/bin/perl -n
printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack
'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;