Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:54:32 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: ocean@ecenet.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, can't send messages to Freebsd.org! Message-ID: <3A92D988.6970814D@eng.ufl.edu>
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> > > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:37:04 -0600 > From: "Nicole Porter" <jivetweety@hotmail.com> > Subject: Help, can't send messages to Freebsd.org! > > Ok, I'm now trying to use my wife's hotmail account to send a message, > because I have been trying for four days now with my account. > These are the email addresses I've tried: > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > questions@freebsd.org > jkh@freebsd.org > > All come up with the same error message, as follows. The message says I > don't need to resend, but my message never ends up on the list. > Is my server blocked? My normal email address is ocean@ecenet.com > Please do not send to this account, send to me directly. > Thanks, > Michael Porter > ocean@ecenet.com > The FreeBSD mailing lists do not accept mail from a system if the system IP number does not map back to a valid domain name (or something like that). The system in question would be the SMTP host that your mail client sends outgoing mail to, which appears to be 204.220.140.4. This policy greatly reduces the amount of commercial spam on the freebsd mailing lists. If I read this error message correctly, it is trying to tell you that 204.220.140.4 attempted to deliver your message to hub.freebsd.org, but it didn't have a proper domain name so the mail was rejected. If that was the problem, it is fixed, because it now has a name that maps properly, i.e.: Name: mail.cpinternet.com Address: 204.220.140.4 Aliases: seagull.cpinternet.com Does the problem still exist? It looks to me like your ISP temporarily had things misconfigured, but it is now fixed. - Bob > > ********************************************** > ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** > ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** > ********************************************** > > The original message was received at Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:51:29 -0600 (CST) > from pr-5300-1-fa194.ecenet.com [209.240.250.194] > > ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to hub.freebsd.org.: > >>>RCPT To:<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [204.220.140.4] > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: > cannot find your hostname, [204.220.140.4] > Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > > > > > Reporting-MTA: dns; seagull.cpinternet.com > Arrival-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:51:29 -0600 (CST) > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Action: delayed > Status: 4.2.0 > Remote-MTA: DNS; hub.freebsd.org > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, > [204.220.140.4] > Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:03:07 -0600 (CST) > Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:51:29 -0600 (CST) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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