[H-GEN] Clairvoyance requested regarding SMTP errors

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi,

My work mail server styx.ooc.com.au has a 'backup' mail server
atlas.bit.net.au which is supplied to us by our ISP. The respective
preference values are 50 and 100.

My boss is having troubles with his mail. To make life more interesting
people are sending email to an an alias (michi at iona.com) to an alias
(mhenning at iona.com) to a real address (michi at ooc.com.au). I think all the
aliases are resolved before atlas (ISP MX) is contacted.

I am a little confused by the error message below (names have been changed
to protect the innocent). Is this saying that atltas tried to talk to styx
(451) but couldn't so it denies relaying (550 5.7.1) and then
mail.boston.iona.ie decides that means user unknown? Is this the right
interpretation?

If so, do you think I should ask the ISP to set up their server to accept
all mail to any destination address at ooc.com.au? (I have a feeling that
bruce will LART me for this idea.)

Thanks,

Raymond


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>From MAILER-DAEMON at iona.com Thu Mar 29 11:40:46 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:04:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at iona.com>
To: sender at iona.com
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown

The original message was received at Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:52:24 +0100 (BST)
from mail.boston.iona.ie [63.65.132.35]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
michi at ooc.com.au
    (expanded from: mhenning)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 michi at ooc.com.au... reply: read error from styx.ooc.com.au.
... while talking to atlas.bit.net.au.:
>>> RCPT To:<michi at ooc.com.au>
<<< 550 5.7.1 <michi at ooc.com.au>... Relaying denied
550 michi at ooc.com.au... User unknown

   ----- Original message follows -----

Return-Path: sender at iona.com
Received: from karloff.boston.amer.iona.com (mail.boston.iona.ie
[63.65.132.35]) by dublin.iona.ie (8.8.8/iona-1.02) with ESMTP id TAA14506;
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:52:24 +0100 (BST)
Received: from iona.com (INSPIRO.boston.amer.iona.com [63.65.133.166])
	by karloff.boston.amer.iona.com (8.9.3/iona-1.02-sjamison) with ESMTP
id NAA28671;
	Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:50:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <3AC2320B.957C9F8F at iona.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:48:43 -0500
From: Some Bloke <sender at iona.com>
Organization: IONA Technologies
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Anoth Block <foo at iona.com>
CC: michi at iona.com
Subject: Re: Multicast tele-con conclusions
References: <3AC0C755.D1385DB2 at iona.com>
<5.0.2.1.0.20010328130400.01df02d8 at 63.65.132.35>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

But, oddly, no company confidential information is posted to the HUMBUG
list.


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