[afnog] SMTP server rejecting domain

[Mangaliso Jere]

On 6/2/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:06:10PM +0200,
>  Mangaliso Jere <mangaliso at gmail.com> wrote
>  a message of 46 lines which said:
>
> > Jun  1 13:24:46 nyandeni sendmail[12526]: k51BOegj012526:
> > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<asmwale at cedrisa.org>, relay=[196.45.190.62],
> > reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address asmwale at cedrisa.org does not
> > resolve
>
> Indeed:
>
> % check_soa cedrisa.org
> chambo.sdnp.org.mw is not authoritative for cedrisa.org
> There was no response from domwe.leland-mw.org
>
> What is your question, exactly? How to fix the domain (they should) or
> how to make Postfix accept a broken domain (you should not)?
>

I tried  another SMTP server on our network which is our main office.
And it works fine and I added an alternative NS in /etc/resolv.conf.
After that I got some love.


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Mangaliso Jere
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Malawi
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