| Dick Watson 2006-08-23, 1:27 am |
| I have a device (Sony Aibo) that can't SMTP AUTH. I have an ISP that
requires SMTP AUTH (Earthlink). So, the device is now email-incapable.
So I thought: why not setup the Win2kPro machine to (semi-open) relay.
Simple enough, right? Wrong, apparently.
I have smtpauth.earthlink.net in the Delivery Smart Host setting and I do
not have it set to check itself before sending to the smart host. I have
Outbound Authentication setup to use password/username appropriate for my EL
account; these work from Outlook. I have allowed 127.0.0.1 and
192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 set as allowed hosts to connect to the relay. Mail
gets accepted and to the queue folder and goes nowhere from there. SMTP
logging reveals nothing.
Event Viewer has SMTPSVC messages about domain name service undefined
errors. I can resolve (ping) smtpauth.earthlink.net, but cannot get MX
records via nslookup from anything. (I think this is probably an EL
limitation, but perhaps it is some pilot error as well.) Aren't I using a
smart host so that I don't have to be able to get MX records, etc?!?
Any thoughts about what's going on here and how to troubleshoot/resolve it
would be greatly appreciated!
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