Rejected e-mail Any Clues ?

[Denis Croombs]

An e-mail was rejected by 1 of my servers currently running MailScanner
(latest version) and SpamAssassin 2.55 on a redhat 7.3 system with Sendmail,

The returned e-mail is:-

-----Original Message-----
From: Info Avenue Internet Services [mailto:postmaster at InfoAve.Net]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:16 AM
To: spw0082 at xxxxxx.com
Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed


This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:

  Message-id:

<!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAsdlzKiJ/IE+JQwjar04dEsKAAAAQ
AAAAiwmE/lx1vUuurCT2KKM2VAEAAAAA at xxxxxx.com>
  Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:15:49 -0400
  From: Steve spw0082 at xxxxxx.com
  To: Julie julie at yyyyyy.com
  Subject: Meeting

Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:

  Recipient address: julie at yyyyyy.com
  Reason: Server rejected MAIL FROM address.
  Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.7.1 Access denied
  Remote system: dns;mail.yyyyyy.com
(TCP|165.166.0.28|58988|217.199.181.62|25)

Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (Server rejected MAIL FROM address.)
Original-recipient: rfc822;julie at yyyyyy.com
Final-recipient: rfc822;julie at yyyyyy.com
Remote-MTA: dns;mail.yyyyyy.com (TCP|165.166.0.28|58988|217.199.181.62|25)
Diagnostic-code: smtp;550 5.7.1 Access denied

**************End of returned message*****************

In my sendmail (maillog) I have the following which are the only entries
relating to the incoming domain & this e-mail address:-

Jul 21 10:47:03 ns sendmail[22305]: h6L9l3322305: ruleset=check_relay,
arg1=smtp03.infoave.net, arg2=165.166.0.28, relay=smtp03.infoave.net
[165.166.0.28], reject=550 5.7.1 Access denied
Jul 21 10:47:04 ns sendmail[22305]: NOQUEUE: smtp03.infoave.net
[165.166.0.28] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Jul 21 16:46:41 ns sendmail[5948]: h6LFke305948: from=<spw0082 at xxxxxx.com>,
size=70816, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAsdlzKiJ/IE+JQwjar04dEs
KAAAAQAAAAGwBd8juOXkax2uIkOJdP, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=smtp01.infoave.net [165.166.0.26]
Jul 21 16:46:41 ns sendmail[5948]: h6LFke305948: to=<julie at yyyyyy.com>,
delay=00:00:00, mailer=virthostmail, pri=100816, stat=queued
Jul 21 16:46:42 ns MailScanner[31907]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 71369
bytes
Jul 21 16:46:42 ns MailScanner[31907]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns MailScanner[31907]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns MailScanner[31907]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns virthostmail[5956]: Chrooting to /home/virtual/site3/fst
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns sendmail[5958]: h6LFkiO05958: from=<spw0082 at xxxxxx.com>,
size=71279, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAsdlzKiJ/IE+JQwjar04dEs
KAAAAQAAAAGwBd8juOXkax2uIkOJdP, proto=ESMTP, relay=root at localhost
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns sendmail[5954]: h6LFke305948: to=<julie at yyyyyy.com>,
delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=virthostmail, pri=190816,
relay=yyyyyy.com, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h6LFkiO05958 Message accepted for
delivery)
Jul 21 16:46:44 ns sendmail[5959]: h6LFkiO05958: to=<julie at yyyyyy.com>,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=100014, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

All clues very welcome

Denis