Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:52:50 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> Cc: Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021228223230.GD2528@lewiz.org> References: <3E0DACCB.5090402@quadtelecom.com> <20021228223230.GD2528@lewiz.org>
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On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Harry Tabak wrote: >> Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) >> gets rejected. >> _450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] > > I'm getting this all the time too. It seems that after a while my mails > just get through anyway. In fact, just now they've been getting through > first time. I'm sure my DNS is all messed up but it seems odd it gets > through after a few retries -- is that part of the filter? If it's > persistent, let it in? No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail is delivered. > Does anybody know when this was implemented? It's been around for some years. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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