DWUTKA at marlow.com
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Tue Aug 2 10:09:11 CDT 2005
I see. Okay, so they have a problem with THEIR smtp setup. They may not be setup as a mail forwarder, which means when you send email to yourself, you are hitting their smtp server, and it is accepting email for it's domain, but when you are trying to send mail to another server, it refuses, because then it has to 'forward' your email. Most mailservers won't forward, without authentication, do you use a name and password in your smtp setup? Drew -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 5:13 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Error 550 Mail.colbyconsulting.com is on the server of my hosting company. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:09 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Error 550 Ok. Didn't catch that the first time. Is mail.colbyconsulting.com 'local'? I mean, is it residing where you are at, or is it the mail server of your hosting company? Drew -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 12:31 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Error 550 Yea, but it is more than that. If I just send a test message to myself, it just goes. A few minutes later it comes back in just fine. If I send to one of these other places, it INSTANTLY gets this 550 error in my inbox. If I then change from using mail.colbyconsulting.com as the smtp server address to the "local" smtp address (RR address) it goes out just fine. So it is not a case of "we don't like this destination". It is just forcing me to send through their mail server, but NOT when sending to my own mail server. Truly odd don't you think? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 12:51 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Error 550 It depends on how they have THEIR mail server setup. With the onslaught of spam, a lot of mail servers get down right finicky on what it will let through. I know my personal domain is/was blocked on several mail servers because the IP's in my domain were listed as dynamic, instead of static, which they WERE static. If the domain of the email you are sending 'from' doesn't match the IP's sending the mail, that's another big 'block'. Then there are several 'black lists' on the web, which store domains considered to be spam. Honestly, it's an issue that is a sore point for me (both spam, and the methods used to block). Drew -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:43 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; Tech - Database Advisors Inc. Subject: [AccessD] OT: Error 550 Does anyone understand what is going on with email sent from inside of specific networks. Here's the situation... I get the following error (as an example): Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: Logging in to George Sent: 7/29/2005 1:00 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: 'Jason Ralph' on 7/29/2005 1:00 PM 550 not local host invohealthcare.com, not a gateway >From my sister-in-law's house when I try to send to this specific >address, using SMPT server mail.colbyconsulting.com. If I send mail to myself I do not get this problem (to jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com). I have seen this exact same symptom if sending from my client. It never happened before from my sister-in-law's but is now. It turns out that if I look at her email smtp server (mail.rochester.rr.com), and modify my smtp server to match it works. It appears that this is the classic port 25 blocking thing. It is a royal PITA to have to find out what the correct smtp server is, modify Outlook, and send to that whenever I move from place to place. At my previous host for MY WEB SITE, they had me set up to send on a different port (26 maybe?) and then it worked regardless of where I was since only port 25 was being blocked and my web email server (mail.colbyconsulting.com) was expecting traffic on a different port. The odd part here is that I can send to myself (always), i.e. jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com. That must go on port 25 as well, so why does that go just fine, but not the other message? John W. 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