postfix problem

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Again, searching on Google did not help so far. And too many silly discussions 
of the problem irritate me.

The domain name is linuxfrontier.com . It is a new server, not fully 
configured. This is the first time I use Postfix, but I think I will enjoy it 
more than other mail servers.

linuxfrontier.com does have an MX record.

F..n Rogers that I use right now from home does not allow me to telnet there 
at port 25.

I can however telnet to linuxfrontier.com at port 25 from another remote 
machine. The result is, though, not the one I did expect:

[zbych at localhost zbych]$ telnet linuxfrontier.com 25
Trying 64.62.231.190...
Connected to linuxfrontier.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

and thats it. Nothing more.

SMTP is probably the the craziest protocol used on the Internet. It is simple. 
But so ambiguous. I guess that one can receive the same error response in at 
least 100 cases. 

In my case, when I send email to an existing user on the server, 
zbych-Ugr1wgFcK0yJYWAMoLK9qgC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org from home, using google smatp server, I get this 
response:
====
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     zbych-Ugr1wgFcK0yJYWAMoLK9qgC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org

Technical details of permanent failure: 
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 554 5.7.1 <zbych-Ugr1wgFcK0yJYWAMoLK9qgC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org>: Relay 
access denied
====

zbych-Ugr1wgFcK0yJYWAMoLK9qgC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org is supposed to be forwarded back to 
softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org, the email address I am sending from.

I can send emails from inside of the server, by using /usr/bin/mail . 

Pls. Or not. 

Regards,
zb.







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