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* Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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Hi, |
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> >maybe he only accepts only authenticated users to relay ? |
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> There's a link on the webpage which explains the reason - apparently |
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> they would only accept messages with a From: address like |
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> user@××××××××××××××.org from my host. Anything which I've addressed |
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> from@×××××.com has to reach them via yahoo.com's servers. |
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Yeah, one server is for relaying traffic with @... *sender*, and |
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another is for incoming traffic *to the @yahoo.com domain. |
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They're separate, one doesn't accept the stuff for another. |
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> >Doesn't postfix have some feature like sendmail's mailertable ? |
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> Yes. On Googling "mailertable" I am able to tell you that this |
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> appears to be exactly the same as /etc/postfix/transport |
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> So: |
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> $ cat /etc/postfix/transport |
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> lsv.uky.edu :smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk |
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> tells my server that anything going to lsv.uky.edu should relay via |
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> my outgoing SMTP account at smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk. This is a _little_ |
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> clumsy for my purposes, but adequate. |
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hmm, looks okay for now. |
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Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ? |
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> >yeah, postfix gets confused by the "." MX reference for the domain |
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> >smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com. Although it is an unclean configuration, |
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> >I do not see what this has to do with your relay ... your postfix |
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> >just has to pull its mails (for yahoo.co.uk) to smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk, |
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> >and it has an proper A record, so what does it need the MX record |
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> >for ? |
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> Ah, looking up <http://www.mob.net/~ted/tools/mx.php3? |
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> domain=smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk> I see what you mean. |
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> I don't see why postfix is looking up the MX record for it, either. :( |
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Maybe he's paranoid ? |
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> My immediate reaction is: what if I host a fake MX record for |
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> smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk on my internal DNS? I'm not sure of the |
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> implications of that. |
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hmm, you could hava a try. |
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> >BTW: if you don't get it fixed, you may get an UUCP account for |
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> >relay at my site. |
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> I think this would only satisfy mg1.uky.edu if you yourself relayed |
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> anything to its domain via Yahoo. And for that you would require an |
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> SMTP account with Yahoo. |
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My relays push the mails to the MX'es defined in the domains. |
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Maybe I missed the point, but I don't see why this shouldn't work. |
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cu |
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