09-19-05 11:01 PM
In this case, yes the host named beta generated the HELO command.
If it's not your host, then it's one of the hosts that lies in your path.
Could be your host, could be the ISP, could be the recipient. Any
information in the headers of the message? If it's not your host, then you'd
want to start outside your network with the next hop and follow it until you
find the host.
You can look up the dns records and open your own conversations to the hosts
with a telnet session to TCP 25 (from a windows command line: telnet host 25
will open the session you want.)
Feel free to drop a note offline if you need some additional help with
troubleshooting this. Some more details (some you may not want to share on
a public board) would be needed to help any more than these suggestions.
Al
"MikeR" <NOnf4lSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Al Mulnick wrote:
> I don't know. The return address on the error e-mail is postmaster@beta. I
> don't know a server or domain named beta.
>
> Who generates the HELO command? Beta?
>
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What host is 'beta' and who owns responsibility for it?
Remember, the problem is that the HELO command is not presenting the FQDN of
the sending mail host. [Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 HELO does not contain
FQDN] which is likely due to a reverse DNS PTR record that's missing.
Al
"MikeR" <NOnf4lSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Al -
> I've totally lost the bubble here (probably in your previous post). The
> e-mail is being sent via CDONTS from an ASP page on my website. It goes to
> an e-mail address which is a forwarder to the real recipient.
>
> Where do CDONTS and SMTP brush? Or do they? Should I be talking to the
> forwarder(2nd in the chain) or my ISP(1st)? Sorry for the lack o'knowlege.
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Al Mulnick wrote:
