By hopiland
Hi, I’ve been configuring postfix and have done some successful testing, but messed up somehow with a test email. Below are five lines from a looping entry in /var/log/mail.log that are repeating every two minutes. I have stopped postfix for an hour and restarted. I’ve used ‘ps aux’ to identify and kill every postfix process. I’ve emptied the queue with ‘postsuper -d ALL’. Whatever is happening here, I cannot find a way to kill it, and it has been going on for two days. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Jan 27 00:52:15 localhost postfix/smtpd[4450]: connect from mydomain.org[192.22.222.22]
Jan 27 00:52:15 localhost postfix/smtpd[4450]: NOQUEUE: reject_warning: RCPT from mydomain.org[192.22.222.22]: 504 5.5.2 <localhost>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname; from=testing@gmail.com to=testing@gmail.com proto=SMTP helo=<localhost>
Jan 27 00:52:15 localhost postfix/smtpd[4450]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from kampot.org[192.81.222.83]: 554 5.7.1 testing@gmail.com: Relay access denied; from=testing@gmail.com to=testing@gmail.com proto=SMTP helo=<localhost>
Jan 27 00:52:15 localhost postfix/smtpd[4450]: lost connection after RCPT from mydomain.org[192.22.222.22]
Jan 27 00:52:15 localhost postfix/smtpd[4450]: disconnect from mydomain.org[192.22.222.22]
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By the way, the email address did not appear in the error log lines as posted above. The to and from addresses are identical, and both are to an address at gmail.com … relay access is working now with other tests, but this particular error does not go away.
I cannot resolve this problem and when I open a support ticket an automated reply told me to bring the matter up here. Can someone please help?
Can anyone suggest where else I can get support / help with this issue? The error is repeating 720 times a day. Digital Ocean support does not respond only to send an automated email suggesting to post to this community, and there has been no support through the community pages. Are there other places to go to find customer support ? I have searched the Internet for two days trying to find a solution. Is there anyone who works with digitalocean who can at least acknowledge that they have read this request? Please?
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