6 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] cant send to some...
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Mark RobinsonDec 28, 2006 7:32 pm 
Sam VarshavchikDec 28, 2006 7:50 pm 
Mark RobinsonDec 29, 2006 8:01 am 
Mark RobinsonDec 29, 2006 10:15 am 
William HueDec 29, 2006 12:12 pm 
Bernd WurstDec 29, 2006 10:29 pm 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] cant send to some mail servers. WARNING: delayed mail.Actions...
From:William Hue (wh_c@telus.net)
Date:Dec 29, 2006 12:12:28 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Mark,

In light of your finding about TLS, I suspect the problem is with mis-configured
SMTP servers advertising TLS capability, but then choking when Courier tries to
establish a TLS session with the mis-configured server. Usually, the problem is
that the server is missing its certificate.

I seem to remember that Sam added an option to selectively disable TLS on a
per-domain basis, and perhaps someone else on this list can remember which man
page it's in.

Happy New Year.

William

Mark Robinson wrote:

On Dec 29, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Mark Robinson wrote:

On Dec 28, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Mark Robinson writes:

Hi all, I am using courier 0.52.2_1 on freebsd 6.1 Email to certain mail servers is being delayed (all day so far). The info in the maillog is: Dec 28 21:08:38 mail courieresmtp: id=00033D1E.4593F09C. 0000E967,from=<me@noname.com>,addr=<pers@noname.net>: Connection unexpectedly closed by remote host. Dec 28 21:08:38 mail courieresmtp: id=00033D1E.4593F09C. 0000E967,from=<me@noname.com>,addr=<pers@noname.net>,status: deferred Dec 28 21:08:38 mail courieresmtp: id=00033D1E.4593F09C. 0000E967,from=<me@noname.com>,addr=<pers@noname.net>: Connection unexpectedly closed by remote host. Dec 28 21:08:38 mail courieresmtp: id=00033D1E.4593F09C. 0000E967,from=<me@noname.com>,addr=<pers@noname.net>,status: deferred The same email will make it to other mail servers at different clients without any problem. I have telnet'd directly into the delayed mail servers and received their 220. Any ideas?

Yes. Exactly how did you manage to telnet to noname.net's mail server, since this domain doesn't have one?

So, to summarize: you are having problems sending mail to some mail server. Ok, fine.

But, rather then give full details, you choose to replace real data in your logs with random made-up nonsense. Since all the key data from the logs have been ommited, the only real data that's left are the exact times when you've had those errors, which really doesn't mean much.

So, since you've chosen to omit all the key data, you'll just have to figure it on your own. You can't really expect much help when the essence of your question is, essentially "I can't send mail to some random mail server."

Telnetting to this mysterious mail server only proves that the initial connection succeeds. 'Connection unexpectedly closed' indicates that the remote host closed the connection at some point later in the process, so you'll need to send the exact sequence of commands Courier would normally send, when attempting to deliver mail to this mail server, to find out which specific command the remote server is barfing on.

Sorry Sam. I replied to you directly instead of replying back to the mailing list. ok below is the text from a telnet session with one of the problematic servers. I again replaced my client info with fake info. If I am leaving out an SMTP command or this isn't the exact way that Courier talks to other mail servers, please let me know and I will retry the telnet session. Thanks

su-2.05b# telnet CLIENT1.COM.S8A1.PSMTP.com 25 Trying <client1.com ip address>... Connected to CLIENT1.COM.S8A1.PSMTP.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 Postini ESMTP 51 y6_8_7c0 ready. CA Business and Professions Code Section 17538.45 forbids use of this system for unsolicited electronic mail advertisements. MAIL FROM: <mar@fulgentcorp.com> 250 Ok RCPT TO: <cli@CLIENT1.COM> 250 Ok DATA 354 Feed me Hi Jeremy. I am having trouble emailing you. Can you respond to this to let me know you received it? Thanks, Mark . 250 Thanks quit 221 Catch you later Connection closed by foreign host. su-2.05b#

please ignore previous response. I sent original message from the mail server that was having problems and received WARNING: delayed mail from the courier mailing list server. I have since fixed this problem by changing ESMTP_USE_STARTTLS=0 in the courierd config file and restarting courier. heh, after fixing it I flushed the message and the original delayed email went through.