Split Sendmail Config

Don Levey fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Tue Mar 13 17:31:25 UTC 2007


Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Jim van Wel wrote:
>> You should get an error back. So what's the error?
> 
> No error, it never leaves the queue.  It just sits there complaining
> about a read error.  Standard "warning 4 hours" and then "error 5 days"
> messages from sendmail on our mailhost.
> 
> If I switch over for ten minutes to our ISP's smarthost then it's
> gone in just a few seconds and charter.net accept delivery from them.
> 
> If I try to connect to their SMTP port by hand:
> 
>    mirror!~ % telnet charter.net 25
>    Trying 64.192.190.12...
>    telnet: connect to address 64.192.190.12: Connection refused
>    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> So I think it's an IP address based thing at their end.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
Ironic, considering the amount of spam and spam attempts that my server 
gets from *their* dynamic addresses...
  -Don




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