Hi I was hoping someone could help me sent up a Postfix email server on
Opensuse 10.3. I have been trying to send emails (receiving emails is
fine), but they just stay in the queue. I looked at /var/log/mail and
found this error:
status=deferred (lost connection with “receving server” while
performing the HELO handshake)
Does anyone know what that means? The server was working fine a few
days ago. Please let me know if you can help, thanks.
On 01/19/2009 wraith 86 wrote:
> lost connection with “receving server” while performing the HELO
> handshake
Wild guess: Your IP is blacklisted.
Other than that, you should really give us more information: Does it happen for all sending attempts toall domains? Post more logfile content, please.
Are you on a dynamic IP address provided by your ISP? Lots of recipients
refuse to accept direct connections from dynamic addresses because they
are usually home PCs infected wiht spambots. The dynamic address range
your connection is in could have been blacklisted recently. The right
way to do it is to relay through your ISP’s SMTP server.
It’s only when I am attempting to send emails to one specific server,
other servers like Gmail and Hotmail receive the emails fine. That was
the only piece of information I could find concerning the problem. I
went through all the mail logs in /var/log/mail and that was the only
error msg I could find. I did notice that when I did send emails to
Gmail and Hotmail they ended up in the spam folder. Not sure if that
helps.
Also it’s a static IP connection through my router
Don’t overlook the possibility that the receiver is down or having
problems, either (especially if it’s a small ISP or a private server).
Have you contacted them?
When my Scalix server gets really busy – typically on a Monday morning
when everyone wants to check the mail at the same time – it will
time out, break connections, or even outright refuse them.
When I tried to send an email through telnet I received this error: 550
RBL rejection: http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=###.###.##.## (My
routers IP). Could this be because my MX record in my DNS is setup
incorrectly?
That is pretty strange, because last week it was working fine. If they
had blacklisted my IP address I thought that I wouldn’t be able to
telnet to the server either?
So I guess the best method is to contact the provider then. Thanks a lot
for your help. I only use it to have error and lfd messages on our
server forwarded to my email account, which is the server where my IP is
blacklisted. Heres hoping I can get it sorted out quickly
Thanks for all your help. Our external IP address had been marked as
spam due to the fact that our MX record was incorrect. Thats all been
fixed and it’s now working. Thanks again guys.
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