On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:17PM +0800, ha shao wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:59:26PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:48:24AM +0800, ha shao wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:10:19PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm not familiar with postfix, but the DS (smart relay) in sendmail > > sucks anyway. It will check for MX RR for the host you specified. For > > hmm... I will consider this as a good thing. sendmail sucks as > many people said, though. > > > example, my ISP told me I should use msa.hinet.net as my smtp > > server. But what the hell is `host -t mx msa.hinet.net`? I finally > > would get a "Relaying denied" by msa0.hinet.net. That's quite > > disappointing. > > > > What's the hell is wrong with your ISP? Why its mx points to > something that doesn't do mx?
<off topic> After some inspection and guessing, I suppose that they seperate their mail clusters into 2 parts: receiving server and relaying servers. The arch my looks like below: Receiving: @msa.hinet.net -> MX RR is msa0.hinet.net Relaying: msa.hinet.net are actually servers behind a load balance box or something like that. Each incoming request will be redirected to different servers (You could find that by issuing a HELO smtp command) Well, I think they play these tricks without awareness of sendmail's smart relay, which is "too smart." This might explain why my emails and Edward's (if he's using hinet.net, too) are rejected by ISP's smtp server. Of course, since the problem is addressed, it could be solved. This is another story... </off topic> -- Clive Lin (Tong-I Lin)\n =P [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Family, friends, private affairs\n =F [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Chinese ports, documentation\n =O [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Others\n =J.* # What do you think about the 'J' ?\n
