Forcing sendmail to use HELO (vs. EHLO)?

Jeff Macdonald macfisherman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 14:10:01 EDT 2004


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:15:52 -0400, Scott Garman <sgarman at iname.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:08, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> I appreciate the offer, but honestly there are so many details of our
> network configuration and Exchange server setup that I'd rather not go
> into.
> 
> But to answer your question, the bounce is a 550 5.7.1 error:
> 
> Your message
> 
>   To:      Joe User
>   Subject: Blah blah blah
>   Sent:    Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:47:35 -0400
> 
> did not reach the following recipient(s):
> 
> Joe User on Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:47:36 -0400
>     You do not have permission to send to this recipient.  For
> assistance, contact your system administrator.
>     < my.sendmail.server #5.7.1 SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Requested action not
> taken: message refused>
> 
> The mails are coming from Bugzilla, and sometimes they make it to the
> recipients, and sometimes they don't.
> 
> I'm not the Exchange admin, and he's tried enabling all sorts of relay
> permissions for my sendmail box, and that hasn't gotten us anywhere.
>

Seems like a content filter in Exchange is causing rejections.
 

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA



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