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My application sends emails out (order confirmation emails, "out of
stock" notification emails, "back in stock" notification emails,
etc.). I use the AdHocComposition class (in Squeak 3.5) thusly:<br>
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(AdHocComposition celeste: aServer initialText: aStream contents)
submit<br>
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where 'aServer' is usually set to my own mail.bountifulbaby.net email
server, and 'aStream' of course has the message to be emailed.<br>
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This used to work flawlessly, but now about one email out of about 200
or so get bounced. Here is a sample of the bounce message (but with
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:foo@frontiernet.net">"foo@frontiernet.net"</a>
instead of the real email address being sent to,
for privacy reasons):<br>
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<pre wrap="">The original message was received at Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:57:00 -0700
from bountifulbaby.com [166.70.210.67]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ffb4@frontiernet.net"><foo@frontiernet.net></a>
(reason: 554 <localhost.localdomain>: Helo command rejected: You are not me. See <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://postmaster.frontiernet.net">http://postmaster.frontiernet.net</a>. See <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://postmaster.frontiernet.net">http://postmaster.frontiernet.net</a>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx.frontiernet.net.:
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<pre wrap=""><!----><<< 554 <localhost.localdomain>: Helo command rejected: You are not me. See <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://postmaster.frontiernet.net">http://postmaster.frontiernet.net</a>. See <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://postmaster.frontiernet.net">http://postmaster.frontiernet.net</a>
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
<<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
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Sometimes the bounce message is a little different, saying something
like <br>
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<localhost.localdomain> invalid MTA<br>
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But even that message seems to be related to the same Squeak email
configuration issue.<br>
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I don't know a whole lot about email transport protocol, but basically
it looks like a configuration issue with the AdHocComposition class,
where it is inserting "localhost.localdomain" as the MTA in the "Helo"
field of the message? Or something like that-- I don't really know,
nor do I understand it.<br>
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Can anybody shed any light on this?<br>
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Nevin<br>
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