Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-21 Thread jkinz
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 2009-01-20 9:25 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > Dang. This means it's going to be a PITA to keep my Postfix > > config files up to date such that they stay in sync with that > > externally visible hostname since it changes every

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Bayard Coolidge writes: > Michael, you're not being singled out - I got the same nastygram a month > or two ago I got the same nastygram several months ago claiming I was sending spam, when I'm fairly certain I wasn't. They claimed my computer might be infected with a virus and that I should do

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Bayard Coolidge wrote: > Apparently they view ANY attempts to transmit e-mail on Port 25 as spam > - the fact that they never bothered to document to its paying users > (like you and me) that they wanted us to use Port 587 instead is ... They actually do documen

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > That error message about the Certificate on the line > just before it was apparently just intended to confuse me. My guess: Many (most?) MTAs which are doing TLS are using self-signed certificates. So you'll get SMTP TLS trust errors b

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-20 9:25 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > Dang. This means it's going to be a PITA to keep my Postfix > config files up to date such that they stay in sync with that > externally visible hostname since it changes every time I get > renumbered. I'll guess I'll have to do something scripty t

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
> BTW, I forward what very little spam I get to > "missed-s...@comcast.net", as well as "s...@uce.gov". H, it may have just been coincidence but my nastygram came immediately after I sent some SPAM to that missed-spam address, so I wondered if there wasn't some connection. I understand the

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
> postfix/smtp[11991]: 3C4A1918124: to=, > relay=smtp.comcast.net[76.96.62.117]:587, delay=0.39, > delays=0.01/0.02/0.33/0.04, dsn=5.1.0, status=bounced (host > smtp.comcast.net[76.96.62.117] said: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : > invalid sender domain (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) > > ('e5

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Bayard Coolidge
Michael, you're not being singled out - I got the same nastygram a month or two ago down here in South Florida. Apparently they view ANY attempts to transmit e-mail on Port 25 as spam - the fact that they never bothered to document to its paying users (like you and me) that they wanted us to use Po

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
This is the reason its being rejected... postfix/smtp[11991]:3C4A1918124: to=, relay=smtp.comcast.net[76.96.62.117]:587, delay=0.39, delays=0.01/0.02/0.33/0.04, dsn=5.1.0, status=bounced (host smtp.comcast.net[76.96.62.117] said: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : invalid sender domain (in reply

Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-19 Thread Michael O'Donnell
[ this msg transmitted via ComCast's godawful WWW email tool ] Once upon a time, ComCast invited customers to send copies of SPAM messages (those few which managed to get past ComCast's filters) to a particular email address, so I rigged my system to do so because I presumed they'd use them to be