Sendmail Problem

Can anyone please shed light on this error :

Dec 15 08:51:44 **** sendmail[7450]: mBELZuvB007446: to=<*8@gmail.com>, ctladdr=<wwwrun@****.com.au> (30/8), delay=00:15:46, xdelay=00:15:46, mailer=esmtp, pri=120632, relay=gsmtp183.google.com. [64.233.183.27], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by gsmtp183.google.com.

Is this a problem at my end? Surely it is not Google’s problem?

I have seen Mail successfully sent from this server and when it does the ctladdr section reads ctladdr=wwwrun it doesn’t have the <> brackets nor does it have @****.com.au .

NB. All of the stars are server info that has been removed.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Has it ever worked for you? It looks like google doesn’t like your IP address. If you are sending from a home broadband address, you are probably blacklisted and you need to relay through your ISP’s server.

It is not just a problem at Google, I also have problems at other servers.
I am not sending from home.

I am inside a large network. It sends mail fine internally. But any (Most but not all) External mail has problems.

It has previously worked. It “Stopped” working a few days ago.

Maybe the address you are using somehow fell into a blacklist hole. It sometimes happens if there is a spammer with a nearby address and the blacklists are too zealous and zap a whole address block.

theland schrieb:
> It is not just a problem at Google, I also have problems at other
> servers.
> I am not sending from home.
>
> I am inside a large network. It sends mail fine internally. But any
> (Most but not all) External mail has problems.
>
> It has previously worked. It “Stopped” working a few days ago.

  • Try “telnet gsmtp183.google.com 25” and talk a bit of ESMTP to the
    Google server until you see at which point in the SMTP dialog it
    drops the connection.

  • Ask the network’s firewall administrator whether there has been
    a policy change with respect to port 25, and whether you are
    supposed to be allowed to send mail directly to external servers.

  • Check whether your externally visible IP address has landed on
    any blacklists.

HTH
T.