listas@chistorete.com (Miguel) writes:

> I have found that some emails are returned from the server because
> they say that relay is not accepted, here is a message that was
> requested by a qmail server that was addressed to receipents in that
> server, but It returns Error 544.
>
> I have reveiewed the email servers IP black lists and our server is
> not not listed in any of them, what is wrong with my email?
> Can any one please help to tell why is this being rejected?
> Is there anything wrong with the headers?

There are several problems.

> Here is the email sent from qmail:
>
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ns2.whirlpool.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't
> work
> out.
>
> <alejandro@whirlpool.com;sergio@adcns9.whirlpool.c om>:

First, that's almost certainly not a valid recipient. It looks like
two addresses glued together with a semicolon (a comma should be used
to separate addresses in a list.)

> 158.52.218.56 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 554 Relay rejected for policy reasons.
> Giving up on 158.52.218.56.

Second, "554 Relay rejected for policy reasons." is not a qmail error
message.

> Delivered-To:
> alejandro@whirlpool.com;sergio@whirlpool.com Received:
> (qmail 12393 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 00:12:31 -0000

Something has randomly wrapped and joined two header fields--probably
your news agent.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
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