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Re: sendmail problem: Relaying denied for



Hiya,

David Resnick wrote:
[snip snip]
> This is what I get in response when I send email:
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> linux-il-request@cs.huji.ac.il
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> .. while talking to mm.mailbank.com.:
> >>> RCPT To:<linux-il-request@cs.huji.ac.il>
> <<< 550 <linux-il-request@cs.huji.ac.il>... Relaying denied for
> "dmr@zahav.net.il" from R-H-185-98.access.net.il [192.117.185.98].  Please try
> checking mail (logging in) with POP or IMAP first.
> 550 linux-il-request@cs.huji.ac.il... User unknown
> 
Just like the error says, 'Please try checking mail (logging in) with
POP or IMAP first.' - It seems that they (mailbank?) have a script that
allows
relay from a specific address for a short time (I'm assuming), but it
does this by tracking pop/imap logons and then opening relaying for that
address - hey, makes sense for a public mail server.

You can just have a little script that telnets to port 110
and sends USER [name] PASS [password], or to 143 for IMAP.
Of course, apop might be better still if they support it.
Of course, there are POP and IMAP perl modules on CPAN
as well.

> Also, I would like info about installing/using a replacement for sendmail. I have seen many > discussions of possible replacements, but they usually don't seem relevant to my system, which is > a single user home PC.
I heard Bero Offline-mail is pretty much ok, and suited to
this task specificly. Never used it though.

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		    Omer Efraim
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