On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Jon L. Miller wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of these messages in my logs and would like to know > what this is about. Ex: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[203.153.242.20]: 450 4.1.1 <yvo...@p cp.org.au>: Recipient > address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; > from=<ad...@qcp.org.au> to=<yvonne @pcp.org.au> proto=ESMTP > helo=<pmx.mmtnetworks.com.au> > > As I happen to know the users at pcp.org.au the user yvonne does not > have an address, so she wouldn't be in the local recipient table. > What I want to know is why it states "RCPT from > unknown[203.153.242.20]" when the ip address is the mail server. I > would have guessed that the domain name would be between the [ ].
The client is unknown because: % host 203.153.242.20 20.242.153.203.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 242.20-dslgw.amnet.net.au. % host 242.20-dslgw.amnet.net.au Host 242.20-dslgw.amnet.net.au not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > I've seen this regarding other users and these users are vaild user > and the mail does not get through. Ex: Sep 30 21:31:37 mail > postfix/smtpd[1242]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[203.153.242.20]: 554 5.7.1 <li...@ii net.net.au>: Relay access > denied; from=<> to=<li...@iinet.net.au> proto=ESMTP > helo=<pmx.mmtnetworks.com.au> Sep 30 21:31:37 mail > postfix/smtpd[1242]: disconnect from unknown[203.153.242.20] > > This user is trying to send mail to a user on another domain that we > look after. It's stating relay access denied, the domain this mail is > trying to get to is in the transport map and the relay_domain command > in main.cf > > Could really need some help and understanding on this. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail ... at the very least, show us the output of 'postconf -n' and the contents of your $transport_maps file(s). -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
