By Hank Alper
I’m using postfix and cyrus which I set up as directed with mixed results. Yahoo and Gmail handle my emails well. Hotmail put it in the spam folder but doesn’t after being notified it’s not span. I tested by reading maillog after an attempt to send mail from DOserver to my roadrunner email account and observing maillog. Here is the maillog entry: Jan 2 06:10:55 Hanksite postfix/smtp[20314]: 49C48609ED: to=myname@cfl.rr.com, relay=cdptpa-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com[107.14.166.70]:25, delay=15, delays=0.02/0.01/15/0, dsn=4.5.4, status=deferred (host cdptpa-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com[107.14.166.70] refused to talk to me: 554 5.5.4 Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed for myIPaddress)
It looks like they can’t get through my smtp port. Why don’t the other major servers have the problems ? How can I fix this?
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