Thanks for your information. We are upset by these error as users keep complaining
about it. From the log of a
particular day, it is found there is 7 failures and 7 deferral out of 42 delivery to
hotmail. It is strange as
the error is not consistent, sometimes it failed and bounced and somtimes it just work
well at all. At first
we suspect problem relating to DNS server reconfiguration but there is no rejection by
other domain because of
DNS lookup failures.
Do any one experience similar problems ?
Magnus Bodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:17:15PM +0800, Neil Chan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am getting strange qmail logs relating to hotmail. The MTA of hotmail
> > keep our mail accasionally with the following logs. The logs show that
> > our qmail mta failed with reason, "my_name_was_rejected",
> > "after_I_sent_the_message", "on_DATA_command" etc. Do anyone have idea?
> >
> > Jun 20 08:49:48 qmailmta qmail: 961462188.481847 delivery 380: deferral:
> > Conn
> >
>ected_to_216.32.243.136_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
>
> This is qmail-remote signalling that it doesn't get a 250 back when doing
> HELO. The server name was rejected. Possibly by two reasons. The hostname
> did not resolve or did not have a proper reverse DNS entry, or that the
> hostname domain doesn't have any MX. The latter one is very silly indeed as
> mail delivery should be done to the host if MX is lacking.
>
> > Jun 20 11:17:11 qmailmta qmail: 961471031.714408 delivery 792: failure:
> >
>Connected_to_216.32.243.136_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
>
> This is qmail-remote signalling that it doesn't get a 250 back when doing
> MAIL FROM. The envelope sender was rejected.
>
> > Jun 20 11:29:19 qmailmta qmail: 961471759.354873 delivery 865:
> >
>failure:216.33.151.136_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
> >
> > Jun 20 11:37:18 qmailmta qmail: 961472238.216237 delivery 970:
> >
>deferral:Connected_to_216.32.243.136_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
> >
> > Jun 20 12:29:52 qmailmta qmail: 961475392.224472 delivery 1143:
> >
>failure:216.32.243.136_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
> >
> > Jun 20 14:13:08 gatekeepery qmail: 961481588.564355 delivery
> > 1342:failure:
> > 216.32.243.136_failed_on_DATA_command./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed/
>
> This must be some internal error on the remote MTA. Possibly that the
> delivery failed due to problem when accessing the data storage etc.
>
> /magnus
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