Re: Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown[OT - problem report]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Pavan K Balellugari rearranged electrons thusly:

>    whatz going on here.. hope most of u got this one..
> surprised me like hell.. still i am not sure if this
> my fault ( unlikly ) linux-india majodemo problem (
> unlikly i think ).. this user zoyd@xxxxxxx ( Most
> likely )...
 
 The problem is at web26.linux-hosting.com - and this guy is subscribed as
 zoyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to mx0.gmx.net.:
> > >>> RCPT To:<zoyd@xxxxxxx>
> > <<< 550 {mx15} The recipient does not accept mails
> > from 'yahoo.com' over foreign mailservers
> > 550 zoyd@xxxxxxxxxx User unknown
 
 He has got his zoyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx forwarding to zoyd@xxxxxxx

 GMX, by default, has some anti-spam protection available whereby mail for
 yahoo.com is only accepted from yahoo's mailservers.  Not from, say,
 web26.linux-hosting.com - which breaks any .forward or similar setups.
 
 Zoyd has to disable it by going to http://www.gmx.net and pokes around the
 options page.  Or he can point his zoyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx address elsewhere and use
 the gmx address as it is.

 I found this out as I've got a gmx account with a couple of accounts
 forwarding to it.  After the first couple of bounces, it got rather obvious.
 
 	-suresh

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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