Rejected e-mail Any Clues ?

[Denis Croombs]

Hi Mike
Thanks for that, I had checked that, and neither the ISP or the xxxxxx.com
domain are listed for rejection.

Denis
----- Original Message -----
From: "mikea" <mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Rejected e-mail Any Clues ?


> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:21:28PM +0100, Denis Croombs wrote:
> > 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
>
> [snip]
>
> This looks *very* much like mail service being denied because of an
> entry in the /etc/mail/access.db database. The maillog lines above
> are pretty much diagnostic for that.
>
> Here is a similar log line pair for rejection of an SMTP connection
> because of an access.db entry here:
>
> Jul 15 08:16:42 mikea sendmail[67639]: h6FDGSS8067639:
>   from=<txv241 at canada.com>, size=4398, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>   msgid=<7t--$9-3$1$x0y$r$$n$weh$6 at 9gx.6.fih>, proto=SMTP,
>   daemon=MTA, relay=MG097004084.user.veloxzone.com.br [200.97.4.84]
> Jul 15 14:47:10 mikea sendmail[69568]: ruleset=check_relay,
>   arg1=MG020198.user.veloxzone.com.br, arg2=200.165.20.198,
>   relay=MG020198.user.veloxzone.com.br [200.165.20.198],
>   reject=550 5.7.1:Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil
>   not permitted to do SMTP here.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin since 1964