Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

Chad Perrin wrote:

I moved email from a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine.

On both machines, I'm using sSMTP[1] to send email to a mailserver
managed by a shared hosting server, with SSL/TLS authentication.
Everything works, except for one "small" problem -- sending email to this
list. It has apparently exposed a problem with the setup. I get a "Helo
command rejected: Host not found" error when sending to this list.

The weird part is that I'm using *exactly* the same ssmtp.conf file on
both the 7.2 system and the 6.2 system. As you can see -- since this
email comes from the 6.2 system -- that configuration file isn't causing
any problems sending with sSMTP on 6.2, so I'm a little confused about
the cause of the problem. Where else should I look for a problem?


My first guess would be DNS. Whenever I see something like a 'host not
found' of this nature I think "no PTR record". Although I would think wrt
mail the MX record would matter. My thinking is the two configs you have
mentioned being identical the problem is a third config somewhere else, and
first thing I'd look at is name resolution, forward and reverse.

Grab a copy of the transaction with tcpdump or Wireshark. Perhaps the list
filtering software is seeing mail with a From: <some domain> it isn't
recognizing and blocking. Tcpdump/Wireshark from both hosts and compare for
differences in the mail headers, e.g., the one that works and the one that
doesn't. With Wireshark this is easy, just start a capture, send an email,
stop capture, and use the "Follow TCP Stream" menu option. Or use tcpdump
and import it into Wireshark.

-Mike



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