[Box-Admins] Mail delivery from dan.box.squeak.org to mail.squeak.org at 162.242.237.43

[Tobias Pape]

Hi Dave,

> On 05.01.2018, at 01:21, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> I am only guessing, but stepping through the smtp interaction in a debugger
> tells me that an optional username/password may be exchanged in the smtp
> protocol. The squeaksource.com image does not supply this, possibly because it
> originally sent mail via box2.squeak.org, and now via mail.squeak.org (???).
> 
> Is a username/password required for the client on dan.box.squeak.org to connect
> to the smtp server at mail.squeak.org?

Sorry I did not step in earlier.

Yes. I configured the mailer to _relay_ for our boxen, so that there's no user/pw interchange.
What would it be in the first place?

Also, You could try localhost, there's an exim running that uses mail. as a smarthost.

I wonder, because it had worked up until now…

Best regards
	-Tobias

> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:52:34PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> The squeaksource.com image runs on dan.box.squeak.org, and it occasionally
>> tries to send SMTP mail to mail.squeak.org, which resolves to 162.242.237.43.
>> The attempt to connect to the mail server results in a 503 service not available
>> error.  This in turn results in failures that hang the squeaksource image (but
>> that is a subject for another discussion). For now, I am trying to understand how
>> to get mail delivery working.
>> 
>> I need some help to understand the source of the error. Is there something
>> about our Rackspace server configuration (and network configurations) that
>> would prevent mail delivery from working when the SMTP client connects from
>> a Squeak image running on dan.box.squeak.org to the mail server at address
>> 162.242.237.43?
>> 
>> Background: For purposes of debugging, I am VNC connecting to a modified
>> squeaksource.com image running on dan.box.squeak.org, and I am evaluating the
>> following snippet to debug the SMTP connection issue:
>> 
>>   fromAddress := 'squeaksource at source.squeakfoundation.org'.
>>   recipientList := OrderedCollection new add: 'box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org'; yourself.
>>   recipientList := OrderedCollection new add: 'dtlewis290 at gmail.com'; yourself.
>>   messageText := 'This is a test message from a squeaksource.com test image.'.
>>   smtpServer := 'mail.squeak.org'.
>> 
>>   SMTPClient
>>           deliverMailFrom: fromAddress
>>           to: recipientList
>>           text: messageText
>>           usingServer: smtpServer.
>> 
>> 
>> The connection failure results in an error response '503 5.5.1 Error: send HELO/EHLO first'.
>> 
>> Help and pointers appreciated.
>> 
>> Dave