From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FwK2s-0000zq-Kw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:32:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5UEUYXF008714; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:30:34 GMT Received: from forum.psychotherapie.org (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5UEPLcJ015775 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:25:22 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by forum.psychotherapie.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id k5UEPM46013153 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:25:22 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id k5UENrSJ009578 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:23:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:23:53 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply) Message-ID: <20060630142353.GB28251@nibiru.local> References: <3EADE689-8B89-4F15-AB81-AA178F433F2A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20060628205825.GA13541@nibiru.local> <1948E732-35C7-4176-BE36-236B0C0F4719@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1948E732-35C7-4176-BE36-236B0C0F4719@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Archives-Salt: 66d0cc29-cb86-4bcb-bbcd-5fc63cd03516 X-Archives-Hash: dd7782959d64bd6a39d1ba420421b8cf * Stroller wrote: Hi, > > > >maybe he only accepts only authenticated users to relay ? > > There's a link on the webpage which explains the reason - apparently > they would only accept messages with a From: address like > user@stroller.uk.eu.org from my host. Anything which I've addressed > from@yahoo.com has to reach them via yahoo.com's servers. Yeah, one server is for relaying traffic with @... *sender*, and another is for incoming traffic *to the @yahoo.com domain. They're separate, one doesn't accept the stuff for another. > >Doesn't postfix have some feature like sendmail's mailertable ? > > Yes. On Googling "mailertable" I am able to tell you that this > appears to be exactly the same as /etc/postfix/transport > > So: > $ cat /etc/postfix/transport > lsv.uky.edu :smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk > tells my server that anything going to lsv.uky.edu should relay via > my outgoing SMTP account at smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk. This is a _little_ > clumsy for my purposes, but adequate. hmm, looks okay for now. Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ? > >yeah, postfix gets confused by the "." MX reference for the domain > >smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com. Although it is an unclean configuration, > >I do not see what this has to do with your relay ... your postfix > >just has to pull its mails (for yahoo.co.uk) to smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk, > >and it has an proper A record, so what does it need the MX record > >for ? > > Ah, looking up domain=smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk> I see what you mean. > > I don't see why postfix is looking up the MX record for it, either. :( Maybe he's paranoid ? > My immediate reaction is: what if I host a fake MX record for > smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk on my internal DNS? I'm not sure of the > implications of that. hmm, you could hava a try. > >BTW: if you don't get it fixed, you may get an UUCP account for > >relay at my site. > > I think this would only satisfy mg1.uky.edu if you yourself relayed > anything to its domain via Yahoo. And for that you would require an > SMTP account with Yahoo. My relays push the mails to the MX'es defined in the domains. Maybe I missed the point, but I don't see why this shouldn't work. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: contact@metux.de cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list