Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - Still Can't send mail to AOL HELP!

["kajan" <kajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I meant to say taht if the userID has a (.dot) inbetween, you may have to
edit "poprelayd" config file to enable the to send email if pop before smtp
is enabled.

Regards

Kajan

----- Original Message -----
From: "kajan" <kajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - Still Can't send mail to AOL HELP!


> Is the sender's address has a . (dot) in between. Them the poprelayd will
> not allow you to send mail to other domains than the local domains inside
> the same server.
> (I did not quite follow this post but this may be helpfull.)
>
> Regards
>
> Kajan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - Still Can't send mail to AOL HELP!
>
>
> > David Lucas wrote:
> >
> > > Are you providing your own dns?
> > > On different machines?
> > > Are your DNS servers registered?
> > > Is your block of IPs assigned to you or are they just borrowed from
your
> isp?
> > > If they are borrowed, you may want to use one of their dns servers as
> your
> > > secondary.
> >
> > I think Dan figured it out when he pointed out lack of reverse DNS.
> > While it doesn't matter who does reverse DNS, and it doesn't even matter
> > if reverse DNS reverses back to the same domain or not (REALLY!!!), it
> > does matter if it's being resolved at all.  It MUST be resolved.
> >
> > Why do you think you have to use the ISP as the secondary?  Just
> > curious, since it has NOTHING to do with it at all.  you DO NOT NEED
> > secondary DNS for anything at all as long as primary DNS is working.
> > Wait, that's not true, you need it for the original registration of the
> > domain.  But that's all.  Not even for renewals.
> >
> > > Is the real problem here dns or is it your email being refused by AOL?
> > > What is the return address you are using to send to AOL and what is
the
> > > refusal message?
> > > Is it being relayed via one of your other domains? (I notice you use
> > > various emails with different domains)
> > > Unless you are attaching to different machines to send your mail, some
> is
> > > probably relayed at some point.
> >
> > Why would you say that?  I use about a half-dozen domains, all through
> > one properly configured RaQ.
> >
> > > Could your mail be refused due to this reason?
> >
> > Quite doubtful.  Just about every mail-server in the world will accept
> > email that's been relayed up to eight times.  REALLY.  But mail-servers
> > should be configured to NOT RELAY.  Unless he's sending email to aol.com
> > to be forwarded to a different domain, he's not asking AOL to do
> > anything it's not supposed to do.  For example, my email leaves this
> > computer, goes through joshua.nobaloney.net, then to list.cobalt.com,
> > then on to you.  Do you not accept it because the "From" address is at
> > nobaloney.net, but the server it's gone through is list.cobalt.com?  The
> > answer is no; that's perfectly valid.
> >
> > Jeff
> > --
> > Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting
> > nobaloney.net
> > P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA  92517
> > voice: (909) 778-9980  *  fax: (702) 548-9484
> >
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