Bad EHLO response 2

[alexv2]

Ok so for the longest time I could not figure out why mail from my domain would get tagged by spam filters. Until I stated tail a mail log file while sending from my domain that was running spamassassin. If you just do a EHLO to my mail server it says a domain must be specified.

I am just using sendmail and have done all I know how to do to try and get t to just answer. I have removed all my masquerade domains and everything. The server name is the domain name. have this set in sendmail.mc LOCAL_DOMAIN(`thehobbypit.com').

Any help or hints in the right direction would be great thanks.

 

[thedaver]

I'm sorry, what?! I don't know of any cases where your EHLO gets you labelled as a spam sender.

What's the symptom here? What are you trying to fix?

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http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[alexv2]

Ok here is the error I am getting.

sender verify fail for <alex@thehobbypit.com>: unrouteable mail domain "thehobbypit.com"

From what I read this happens because the server gives an invalid response. I have not set up mail enough to know for sure it is just what I read. Any help would be grand.

 

[smah]

Your MX record should be a hostname, not IP address.

Steve

 

[smah]

Besides that, your mail server seems to be an open relay which might cause you to be blacklisted.

Steve

 

[thedaver]

priceless

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[alexv2]

How can you tell if it is an open relay? In my access file I only allow relay for the back net and localhost. Does this not work? If not is using something like emix the only way to really shut it down from being an open relay.

I was also going to attempt to install sendmail-auth. I think I will give that a shot now. I am way anti spam and do not want to help the spammers out with an open relay. Thanks very much for the help.

 

[smah]

Just to prove it, I just used your server to send myself a message. Below is some of the header info (real e-mail addresses & ip addresses obscured)

X-Real-To: my_real_email
Return-Path: <my_real_email>
Received: from my_mail_server
with SMTP id 150621482 for my_real_email; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:20:18 -0500
Received: from unknown [your_mail_IP] (EHLO thehobbypit.com)
by my_mail_server with ESMTP id 0148bf34.1891.124.c1m30;
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:20:16 -0500 (EST)
Received: from my_system_details
by thehobbypit.com with SMTP id k1LLWgkO030522
for <my_real_email>; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:32:46 -0800
Message-ID: <000901c6372c$99c3ea00$640aa8c0@Omega>
From: "Steve" <my_real_email>
To: <my_real_email>
Subject: open relay
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:20:07 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C63702.ADC3F240"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
X-SOURCE-IP: [your_server_IP]

I don't use sendmail, so I can't offer any assistance with that; however there is forum14 or thedaver could post the link for an alternative MTA. By the way, you can get a lot of info from

http://www.dnsreport.com.

Steve

 

[LawnBoy]

Great link Steve, have a star for that.