More problems?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006, David Bandel wrote:
>On 6/29/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
...
>> The HELO our postfix mail server got on this message looks seriously wierd
>> ``???connection?timed?out??no?servers?could?be?reached'' from IP address,
>> 64.117.232.19.
>
>Bizarre.  I see that.  This is a DNS issue, but DNS is working.
>Really odd thing is how _fast_ is gives the connection time-out.

This message had a similar HELO greeting.  I think that the
linux-sxs MTA is sendmail, based on seeing ``milter'' headers
amongst the rest, and I know next to nothing about sendmail
having avoided it for the last fifteen years.

I would think that the MTA HELO would be in its configuration,
not something determined by DNS, but then one of the first things
I ever saw that I disliked about sendmail was the way some
sendmail servers rewrote headers -- particulary when they rewrote
my Reply-To headers in ways that broke the uucp return path.

Bill
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