Re: Message lost?

[Андрей Парамонов]

2010/11/5 Bob Proulx <address@hidden>:
> The machine eggs.gnu.org is the MX relay for gnu.org.  All incoming
> mail for gnu.org addresses will be received by eggs.  Here eggs is
> pushing the mail back with a temporary rejection 451.  The 400 series
> codes are temporary rejections.  A permanent rejection would be a 500
> series code.  Temporary rejects happen for reasons of full disks or
> DNS lookup failures or other reasons and simply cause the mail to stay
> in the sender email queue.  The sender will retry again later.  If the
> situation continues then eventually the message delivery will timeout.
> But usually the issue will be resolved and the message can then be
> delivered when it retries.
>
> The reason given was "Could not complete sender verify callout" which
> means that eggs tried to determine if your address <pent at
> aparamon.msk.ru> could receive messages.  If you look at the logs on
> the host aparamon.msk.ru you should find record of eggs trying to send
> a message probe to it.  That probe was denied.  aparamon.msk.ru would
> not receive email.  Because of that eggs pushed back your mail with
> the 451 temporary rejection.  It is temporary because at some point in
> the future aparamon.msk.ru might be able to accept the email.
>
> In summary the reason eggs rejected your email is that your email
> server rejected eggs email.
>
> Looking at why aparamon.msk.ru won't accept email I see that it is
> missing an MX record.
>
>  $ host -t mx aparamon.msk.ru
>  aparamon.msk.ru has no MX record
>
> Secondly aparamon.msk.ru is not accepting connections on the SMTP
> port.
>
>  $ connect aparamon.msk.ru 25
>  FATAL: Unable to connect to destination host, errno=111
>
> If you configure aparamon.msk.ru to accept email from eggs then you
> should be able to send email from that address.  When you changed to
> gmail.com that worked because gmail.com allows eggs to send it email.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Bob
>

Thanks you and Ward for detailed reply!

After I setup SMTP, what is the best way to test I can actually send
mail to gnu.org?

Thanks for your support,
Andrey Paramonov