I've been trying to e-mail reports in mylog and I keep getting an "unable to connect to SMTP server". Any suggeations? Am I missing something?
I've been trying to e-mail reports in mylog and I keep getting an "unable to connect to SMTP server". Any suggeations? Am I missing something?
OK, back to basics.
1. Can you send emails from other applications on your PC, e.g. Outlook, Outlook Express? (I don't mean webmail like Hotmail, etc).
2. What do you see if you open a DOS window and type Telnet mail.airnavsystems.com 25 ?
2. See the attached screen shot of what I get when I type the above command into a DOS box. It's an empty box with a flashing cursor.
2. See the attached screen shot of what I get when I type the above command into a DOS box. It's an empty box with a flashing cursor.
I know my ISP (Be Internet) do block access to port 25 for all mailservers other than their own (as do most of the UK ISPs !)
X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 87.248.114.78; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:09:40 +0000
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 74.55.96.226
X-Originating-IP: [74.55.96.226]
Authentication-Results: mta828.mail.ukl.yahoo.com from=btinternet.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 74.55.96.226 (EHLO mail.airnavsystems.com) (74.55.96.226)
by mta828.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:09:39 +0000
Received: from ghe520
by mail.airnavsystems.com (Merak 8.3.8) with ASMTP id KLM49938
for <[email protected]>; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:09:38 -0000
From: "Xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx" <[email protected]>
Subject: AirNav RadarBox Log 2009/02/02 (Portmahomack Scotland)
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:09:30 +0000
X-Priority: 3
X-Library: Indy 9.00.10
Hi People.
Airnav Support, Tarbat.
Thanks for your your help and effort.
According to my research, the problem can be described as follows:
1- Server mail.airnavsystems.com IP 74.55.96.226 , dos NOT have reverse DNS lookup configured in right way
2- In this situation, the majority of ISPs mail servers aroud the world, will reject any email coming from an SMTP in this situation.... BUT
3- If the ISP email server DOES NOT CHECK reverse from the sender, (very seldom nowadays) the email will be received without problems.
4- Maybe It would be interesting if Airnav people would take a look on the Merak logs, where probably will find a lot of emails rejected due to the lack of well configures reverse DNS for mail.airnavsystems.com
5- I tryed 5 diferent ISPs to receive report log and only worked with ONE, that probably his server DOES NOT CHECK reverse DNS from sender SMTP
Cheers. Juan
I'm still having problems with the reports I keep getting a 550 error