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From: Grant Taylor on 23 Mar 2010 22:36
nospam(a)notreal.com wrote:
> I just did a cut and paste from an existing email. It shows you how
> much, or really how little, I know.

n/p

> Not a problem. I am just thankful you replied.

You are welcome.

> This is my latest effort.

Try one more time including the To: and From: headers. (Same idea as
the requirement for the Date: header.)

To: Bob <bob(a)domain.tld>
From: Ed <ed(a)domain.tld>

> I suspect you are hitting your head against the wall trying to solve
> a problem that at least Godaddy feels is unsolvable if they switched
> me to another server. On the other hand, I also suspect you know
> more about email in general and sendmail in particular than 99.4% of
> their techs in customer support so if you have any more ideas, I am
> game to try them.

*chuckle*

> Do I detect a sense of skepticism? :)

Not in you. You are (or appear to be) actually trying. That is more
than I can say for most large companies that I've had to interface with.

> Thanks again for taking the time to help.

You are welcome.



Grant. . . .
From: nospam on 23 Mar 2010 23:42
In article <hobtrv$jju$1(a)tncsrv01.tnetconsulting.net>,
gtaylor(a)riverviewtech.net says...

>
> Try one more time including the To: and From: headers. (Same idea as
> the requirement for the Date: header.)
>
> To: Bob <bob(a)domain.tld>
> From: Ed <ed(a)domain.tld>
>

Good thought. I had reverted to just using an address with no angle
brackets.

Here are the results.


root(a)myserver:/etc/mail# telnet smtpout.secureserver.net 3535
Trying 72.167.82.80...
Connected to smtpout.secureserver.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 p3plsmtpa01-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ESMTP
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
Z2FyYmFnZQ0KDQo=
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
bW9yZV9nYXJiYWdl
235 Authentication succeeded.
MAIL FROM: Test <user(a)mydomain.com>
250 Sender accepted.
RCPT TO: Test2 <user(a)another.com>
250 Recipient accepted.
data
354 End your message with a period.
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:38:07 -0400
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCIIsw
Subject: Test

This a test.
..
554 Message refused.

Oh well.


>
> > Do I detect a sense of skepticism? :)
>
> Not in you. You are (or appear to be) actually trying. That is more
> than I can say for most large companies that I've had to interface with.
>

I guess I missed the mark on that one. The comment "Do I detect a sense
of skepticism? :)" was in reference your "Good luck with that."
statement after I told you that I was contacting Godaddy's support desk.

I guess you really meant "good luck" rather than "you really do not that
will ever happen, do you". Inflection and tone are hard to convey in
emails.

My apologies for the confusion.


I have a four drive tomorrow to arrive at my destination by 10:00 AM so
I wont be back this evening.


From: Claus Aßmann on 24 Mar 2010 10:03
wrote:

> MAIL FROM: Test <user(a)mydomain.com>
> 250 Sender accepted.
> RCPT TO: Test2 <user(a)another.com>

Please see RFC 821/2821/...

The syntax is utterly wrong.
From: nospam on 24 Mar 2010 22:12
In article <hod62o$o6a$1(a)obelix.informatik.uni-kiel.de>, Claus =?iso-
8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= <ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-
kiel.de> says...
> wrote:
>
> > MAIL FROM: Test <user(a)mydomain.com>
> > 250 Sender accepted.
> > RCPT TO: Test2 <user(a)another.com>
>
> Please see RFC 821/2821/...
>
> The syntax is utterly wrong.
>
After reading the specification it would appear you are suggesting that
I use

MAIL FROM:<user(a)mydomain.com>

and

RCPT TO:<user(a)another.com>

and I will give those a try. If that is not what you were implying,
please give an example as I am obviously a slow learner.


The one thing I also found in the spec is "If accepted, the SMTP server
returns a 250 OK reply. If the mailbox specification is not acceptable
for some reason, the server MUST return a reply indicating whether the
failure is permanent...."

If my syntax was so wrong and unacceptable, why did the SMTP server
return a "250 Sender accepted"?

From: mikea on 24 Mar 2010 22:25
nospam(a)notreal.com wrote in <MPG.261490af2e52979498968f(a)news.eternal-september.org>:

> If my syntax was so wrong and unacceptable, why did the SMTP server
> return a "250 Sender accepted"?

In my experience, not everyone follows every provision of each RFC, or
even the "MUST"s and "MUST NOT"s of the SMTP-related RFCs.

--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea(a)mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
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