[lug] Can't send email to uswest domain

[Atkinson, Chip]

IIRC, I had the same problem.  I use USW as a DSL ISP.  I was mailing out
directly to people, but much of my mail wouldn't go through.  I think they
do reverse lookups to screen spam.  The problem went away when I used USW as
a relay.  You might want to use your ISP as a relay.  That is likely to fix
the problem.

Say Hi to Tim for me.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Karns [mailto:jkarns at csd.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:44 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Can't send email to uswest domain
> 
> 
> It's impossible for me to send email to people in the uswest 
> domain.  I
> believe it's because I have a psuedo domain and it appears in 
> my headers.  
> My return address however, is legitimate and authentic.  I haven't
> experienced problems with any other destination.  Has anybody 
> on this list
> had the same problem?  This just started happening about 3 
> weeks ago, and
> I swear that I hadn't made any system changes just to 
> precipitate it.  I
> tried editting /etc/sendmail.cf and deleted the "DM" 
> designation where the
> psuedo domain spec was specified, but to no avail.
> 
> If I 1st send to my shell account at csd.net then telnet in 
> and forward
> from there, the mail is accepted.
> 
> An example of my header:
> 
> V2
> T976721049
> K976721516
> N1
> P121036
> I8/7/106179
> M<tklooster at uswest.net>... reply: read error from mail6.uswest.net.
> Fb
> $rESMTP
> $slocalhost
> $_jkarns at localhost
> S<jkarns at csd.net>
> RPFD:<tklooster at uswest.net>
> H?P?Return-Path: <jkarns at csd.net>
> HReceived: from localhost (jkarns at localhost)
>         by jk500.meyer.edu.co (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05683
>         for <tklooster at uswest.net>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:24:09 -0500
> HX-Authentication-Warning: jk500.meyer.edu.co: jkarns owned 
> process doing
> -bs
> HDate: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:23:18 -0500 (COT)
> HFrom: John Karns <jkarns at csd.net>
> HX-Sender: jkarns at jk500.meyer.edu.co
> HTo: Tim Klooster <tklooster at uswest.net>
> HSubject: Test
> HMessage-ID: 
> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012131019230.5678-100000 at jk500.meyer.edu.co>
> HMIME-Version: 1.0
> HContent-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> 
> 
> And my results:
> 
> Running KAA05683 (sequence 1 of 1)
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail6.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail8.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail6.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail9.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail8.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail5.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail7.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail9.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail4.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail7.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail3.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail4.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Connecting to mail2.uswest.net. via esmtp...
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Closing connection to mail3.uswest.net.
> <tklooster at uswest.net>... Deferred: Connection reset by 
> mail2.uswest.net.
> Closing connection to mail2.uswest.net.
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net
> Bogota, Colombia                                  Voice: 57-1-341-0300
> 
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