On 1/1/2014 4:33 PM, Joseph Brennan wrote:
These three were stopped after RCPT, so the problem is not about content. Most likely the recipient address is not deliverable. <m...@me.com>: host mx6.me.com.akadns.net[17.158.8.114] said: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: usern...@me.com (in reply to RCPT TO command) <m...@cgocable.ca>: host mx2.cgocable.ca[216.221.81.40] said: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. (in reply to RCPT TO command) <m...@msn.com>: host mx2.hotmail.com[65.55.92.168] said: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable (in reply to RCPT TO command) The first one is the unusual case. <m...@epdot.com>: host mx1.megamailservers.com[216.251.32.71] said: 550 5.7.1 s01D0qcI004613 This message does not comply with required standards. (in reply to end of DATA command) I've never seen this error before. Google "This message does not comply with required standards" to find a lot of people speculating about what it means, going back to 2006. They all relate it to Exchange or Outlook, but mx1.megamailservers.com says it is running Sendmail 8.13.6, and this is not a standard sendmail error message. So it's a custom filter on megamailservers.com. Here's an example involving Mailman and megamailservers.com from 2007! <http://list.web.net/archives/getsmart-l/2007-December/002525.html> ... with complete message attached. I don't see anything wrong with it. Joseph Brennan Columbia University IT ------------------------------------------------------
I did a Google search, and it appears that the destination mailer found something objectionable with the mail (maybe a URL that it did not trust, or the mail was to be flagged as spam), so the destination mailer terminated the SMTP session with a fatal 5.7.1 error message. Most of the sites I saw were, as Joseph noted, from Outlook or Exchange users who were trying to blame MS, when it was the sending MS mailer that was reporting what the destination mailer reported during the SMTP dialog. There must be some anti-spam/malware software running on the destination mailer that is treating something in the mail as objectionable. If I remember the SMTP standard correctly, mail can be rejected during the DATA phase of the dialog. In the other three examples, the sender sent the SMTP command RCPT TO:<u...@example.com> and the destination mailer rejected the mail at that point because the mailbox did not exist. It is always better to reject a mail message during the SMTP dialog because, once the mail has been received, it is harder to reject the mail and notify the sending system. --Barry Finkel ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org