postfix and rogers authentication

Fri Jul 4 04:31:22 UTC 2008

hi folks,

just back in town after a year away (yay!).  got home & tried to send
some email from my even-more-evil-than-before rogers broadband
connection.  my old postfix settings (a relayhost
in /etc/postfix/main.cf, a login/password combination
in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd) no longer let me send email out via rogers.
when i ran into the problem i searched and found this link on a rogers
website:

http://www.rogershelp.com/yahoo/article.php?id=10H-F

i followed the directions there, which allows you to send mail from a
non-rogers account if yu painstakingly enter each email address you want
to use (INCREDIBLY annoying).  anyway, that enabled me to send mail out
with evolution using the smtp server directly.  however, i want to be
able to send mail directly via sendmail -- in my case, on my ubuntu
hardy machines, that means postfix.  right now, i'm getting this set of
errors in mail.log:

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> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/master[10232]: terminating on signal 15
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/master[10419]: daemon started -- version 2.5.1, configuration /etc/postfix
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/qmgr[10424]: 5C73E1201D8: from=<root at gont.mercey.dyndns.org>, size=746, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/qmgr[10424]: 6E8661201D4: from=<matt.price at utoronto.ca>, size=4479, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/qmgr[10424]: 058DD1201C9: from=<root at gont.mercey.dyndns.org>, size=746, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/qmgr[10424]: B41FF1201CB: from=<matt.price at utoronto.ca>, size=4465, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jul  3 23:29:07 gont postfix/qmgr[10424]: 916271201DC: from=<matt.price at utoronto.ca>, size=1067, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: warning: relayhost configuration problem
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: warning: relayhost configuration problem
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: warning: relayhost configuration problem
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10426]: 5C73E1201D8: to=<root-kA5zmRqAaJQ at public.gmane.orgrcey.dyndns.org>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=35266, delays=35265/0.31/0.27/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed or unexpected name server reply)
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10427]: 6E8661201D4: to=<info at torontocircus.com>, relay=none, delay=94362, delays=94362/0.24/0.27/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed or unexpected name server reply)
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10428]: 058DD1201C9: to=<root-kA5zmRqAaJQ at public.gmane.orgrcey.dyndns.org>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=138406, delays=138406/0.2/0.26/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed or unexpected name server reply)
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: warning: relayhost configuration problem
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com: 
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: warning: relayhost configuration problem
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10430]: 916271201DC: to=<moptop99 at gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=27272, delays=27271/0.2/0.37/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed or unexpected name server reply)
> Jul  3 23:29:08 gont postfix/smtp[10429]: B41FF1201CB: to=<anna_greenspan-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>, relay=none, delay=133689, delays=133688/0.2/0.38/0, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (Name service error for name=smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed or unexpected name server reply)
-----------[snip]----------------------

i'm just wondering how other people manage their rogers accounts with
postfix?  i do know that about 2 years ago i did get help from the list
setting up postfix, and that i ended up with this
in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

-----------
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete
version

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

myhostname = anarres.mercey.org
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = localhost

#rogers setup
relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com

#authentication stuff
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = loopback-only

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this used to work, and similar setups work on just about every other isp
i've dealt with.  anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?  

thanks so much as usual!!  hope to be seeing you around,

matt

-- 
Matt Price
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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