Re: sendmail

["Nitebirdz" <nitebirdz@uswest.net>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:

> I am running Debian Potato as up to date as possible.  I stay online all
> the time through a 56K modem  I have no trouble sending mail to anyone on
> the web except for Mindspring.com addresses.  This just started recently
> (within the last 3 months).  As soon as I send a mail message out to
> mindspring I get a message error bounce-back saying the address is not
> correct.  But I can come to work and use the same address to send to with
> no problems.  Here is the message log that gets written every time I send
> to mindspring.  
> 
> Dec  5 12:27:54 schmain sendmail[20319]: MAA20317:
> to=<djackes@mindspring.com>, ctladdr=<bschramm@schmain.s
> chrammfamily.net> (1000/1000), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01,
> mailer=esmtp, relay=mx07.mindspring.com. [2
> 07.69.200.227], stat=Service unavailable
> Dec  5 12:27:55 schmain sendmail[20319]: MAA20317: MAA20319: DSN: Service
> unavailable
> Dec  5 12:27:55 schmain sendmail[20319]: MAA20319:
> to=<bschramm@schmain.schrammfamily.net>, delay=00:00:00,
>  xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Brian Schramm
> brian@schramms.yi.org
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 

Did you try to send the message yourself manually and see if it fails at
one point?  I mean something like this:

telnet mx07.mindspring.com 25
helo mindspring.com
rcpt to: djackes@mindspring.com
mail from: brian@schramms.yi.org
data
this is a test
.


I use this to troubleshoot problems like the one you just mentioned.  


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