2 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] freemail question
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Chris PetersenMay 27, 2004 11:55 am 
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Subject:[courier-users] freemail questionActions...
From:Chris Petersen (lis@forevermore.net)
Date:May 27, 2004 11:55:40 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

In my attempt to combat spam, I've been building a rather large bofh file. Part of this is a decently-sized section of freemail definitions. I recently passed these to a friend who gets more mail traffic than I do, and he noticed that

freemail aol.com

was causing messages to be rejected. His maillog shows:

May 27 09:35:49 penny courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:64.12.137.3,from=<vali@aol.com>: 517-Sender rejected: vali@aol.com can be accepted only from

Reversing that IP address shows that it is imo-m22.mx.aol.com - clearly within the "aol.com" domain, and according to the documentation, this should have been accepted.

Our first guess is that this is a subdomain issue (courier is seeing "mx.aol.com" as the domain and not bothering to look further). If this is the case, either courier should be fixed to match further up the subdomain change, or the docs should be ammended to mention this issue so that it can be avoided.

-Chris