On 02 Jun 12:06, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing/Wheezy, kernel 2.6.38, Postfix
I've had a procmail receipe in place for a few weeks now and it's been working well.
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- ^(TO|FROM):.+@mydomainname.*
{ :0c # Send a copy to the other email account. ! someone@anotherdomainname.com # File the original as normal :0 foldername }
OK... so that's about as informative as a melted chocolate tea pot that's got dog hair in it.
Then a few days ago, probably after some OS updates, it fails with:
status=deferred (host mail.*******.*****.com[000.00.00.0] said: 451 4.4.0 DNS temporary failure (chkuser) (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
(I've removed the data identifying the destination)
Yeah - I noticed - it's Really Not Useful if you're expecting sensible replies - yes, I know this is a public mailing list and is archived, but the bits that you've removed are exactly the bits we'd need to work out what's going on.
I have also tried sending an email directly using /usr/bin/sendmail and that produces the same result, whatever the emails destination, so I'm assuming it must be my setup. I can't explain why it worked before but doesn't now though.
I have really no idea what this means as Postfix configuration is a series of magical incantaitions which I don't understand.
Some help would be much appreciated.
Why do you think it's you that's broken? Are you using a smarthost? is the smart host the host that you've (convieniently... aka annoyingly so that no one can check anything for you...) edited out your own machine or somewhere else? Is it for the copy to someone@anotherdomainname.com?
If it's for the copy, then I'd suggest that the domains MX server is having issues doing DNS lookups. As it says on the tin...