[PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
Some e-mail messages bounce with the code 554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: 300 I've recently successfully sent messages to these recipients and suspect this error is due to some issue at the domains' mail servers. A web search turns up a couple of examples of

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

2015-12-11 Thread Steve Dum
John, Here is something that might get you what you want Say you want to list all directories under directory foo find foo -type d this just print the names of the directories If you want something similar to what 'ls -l' would say, find foo -type d -ls The out of this is like the following

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 12/11/2015 8:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Some e-mail messages bounce with the code 554 5.7.1 : > Recipient address rejected: 300 > >I've recently successfully sent messages to these recipients and suspect > this error is due to some issue at the domains' mail

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, j...@meissen.org wrote: > Not necessarily. It's just telling you who the email was addressed to. > It could be rejected because the mail server didn't like you. John, Interesting. As I've communicated by e-mail and phone with these folks I doubt it's deliberate on their

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Jim Garrison wrote: > You could check YOUR outgoing server's IP address against RBLs using an > online tool like MXToolbox Wouldn't this not be likely as other messages, such as this one, have no problems? Rich ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Jim Garrison wrote: > This is why I've been running my own SMTP server for a decade. At least > that way I'm in total control. And I ran my own SMTP server until Frontier bought Verizon's land line business. The Frontier routers are incompativle with my ISP's routers in

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Jim Garrison wrote: > 300 is not a standard code. The real error code was 554 (earlier in the > message). I don't know about other MTAs but in Postfix when you configure > reject reasons you can put any text in the message at that point. The > '300' is probably meaningful

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread john
>> 300 is not a standard code. The real error code was 554 (earlier in the >> message). I don't know about other MTAs but in Postfix when you >> configure reject reasons you can put any text in the message at that point. >> The '300' is probably meaningful only to whoever set up the server. > >

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 12/11/2015 9:33 AM, j...@meissen.org wrote: > Not necessarily. It's just telling you who the email was addressed to. > It could be rejected because the mail server didn't like you. Yes. If you're seeing a non-standard or customized message (as this one is) then it would be up to the

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 12/11/2015 9:38 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >Interesting. As I've communicated by e-mail and phone with these folks I > doubt it's deliberate on their part. Probably some automated filter >In the past recipient server issues have caused bounced messages. I'll try > again later and see if

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 12/11/2015 9:43 AM, Jim Garrison wrote: > You could check YOUR outgoing server's IP address against RBLs using an > online tool like MXToolbox > > http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist:nn.nn.nn.nn > > Replace nn.nn.nn.nn with the external IP address of your outgoing > SMTP

Re: [PLUG] SMTP Error Code Meaning

2015-12-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 12/11/2015 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Jim Garrison wrote: > >> This is why I've been running my own SMTP server for a decade. At least >> that way I'm in total control. > >And I ran my own SMTP server until Frontier bought Verizon's land line > business. The