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)

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 30 Jun 2006, at 15:23, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, duh!

Excuse me for not explaining myself properly.
But I don't know how to explain myself better.

> Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ?

I believe so. There's nothing in the logs to indicate that I haven't,  
and the user:pass in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd is correct,

>> I don't see why postfix is looking up the MX record for it,  
>> either.  :(
>
> Maybe he's paranoid ?

Uh, but this seems to be postfix on MY box (compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org)

>>> 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.

My box normally pushes to the MX defined for the domain, too, but  
mg1.uky.edu will reject SMTP deliveries for any message with a From:  
address where the domain doesn't match the sending machine. As I have  
already explained.

Stroller.


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