OT - "did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN"

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Thursday 03 July 2008 8:35 am, Peter Farrow wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I hope it's OK to ask this here of you bright people, as come up with no
> > answer despite a mythic search:
> >
> > I recntly got a smart phone, primarily so that I could manage my network
> > in an emergency if away from the office and a computer.  (As an aside,
> > using the mobile versions of OpenVPN, VNC, and Putty, among others, I'm
> > able to do so quite nicely). As another peice, I'd like to connect to our
> > Sendmail MTA (used in conjuction with MailScanner, MailWatch,
> > Spamassassin, clamav, Synonym) for emailing purposes. I've tried a few
> > different MUA's, and can receive mail, but am unable to send it.  The
> > error at the seerver is:
> >
> > Jul  2 10:07:10 mail1 sendmail[26498]: m62E6fSg026498:
> > 81.sub-75-221-91.myvzw.com [75.221.91.81] did not issue
> > MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> >
> > I feel I should know how to configure my mail system to accept mail from
> > this source, but I don't. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Dimitri
>
> When Sendmail reports this in the logs, it means that the sending agent
> disconnected prematurely without sending any (valid) response to the
> greeting.
>
> You can replicate the error by telneting to port 25 on the sendmail
> machine and then simply disconnecting before even beginning the smtp
> communication.
>
> P.
>
>

Thanks, Peter.  Curious that no matter which MUA I use, I get the same 
response. Any idea how I would overcome the issue?

Dimitri

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