Split Sendmail Config
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Mar 13 13:04:07 UTC 2007
Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Jim van Wel wrote:
>> You should get an error back. So what's the error?
>
> No error, it never leaves the queue. It just sits there complaining
> about a read error. Standard "warning 4 hours" and then "error 5 days"
> messages from sendmail on our mailhost.
>
> If I switch over for ten minutes to our ISP's smarthost then it's
> gone in just a few seconds and charter.net accept delivery from them.
>
> If I try to connect to their SMTP port by hand:
>
> mirror!~ % telnet charter.net 25
> Trying 64.192.190.12...
> telnet: connect to address 64.192.190.12: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> So I think it's an IP address based thing at their end.
You are trying the wrong host. You need to understand what are MX records
are about.
host -t mx charter.net
charter.net mail is handled by 10 mail.charter.net.
So you want to talk with mail.charter.net which is 209.225.8.224
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