Re: [DL] Need quest suggestion - AARRGGHH!! (OT)

[Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>]

Allan 'Deputy' Seyberth wrote:
> As this affects the functioning of the list, I am curious as to what your
> system is using for it's SMTP setup?  Outlook itself does not treat a
> period/blank line as a EOF flag.

Well, let's see what it says...from the headers of his last message:

Received: from aklip01u.airnz.co.nz (aklip01u.airnz.co.nz
[162.112.18.29]) by www.gamerz.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id
VAA26448 for <deadlands@gamerz.net>; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:14:57 -0500
Received: (from uucp@localhost) by aklip01u.airnz.co.nz (8.9.1a/8.9.1)
id PAA01825 for <deadlands@gamerz.net>; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:14:56 +1300
(NZDT)
Received: from unknown(10.65.16.76) by aklip01u.airnz.co.nz via smap
(V5.0) id xma001721; Wed, 9 Feb 00 15:14:23 +1300
Received: from aklis04w.airnz.co.nz (aklis04w.airnz.co.nz
[10.65.16.156]) by aklndcvu.airnz.co.nz (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id
PAA29233 for <deadlands@gamerz.net>; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:14:22 +1300
(NZDT)
Received: from aklex05w.airnz.co.nz (10.65.20.80) by
aklis04w.airnz.co.nz Wednesday, February 09, 2000 15:12:08
Received: by aklex05w.airnz.co.nz with Internet Mail Service
(5.5.2650.10) id <DZRP8VK0>; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:14:11 +1300

Seeing as your parse mail headers from the bottom up, let's
see...Internet Mail Service is the part of Outlook that handles mail. 
Easy enough.  It looks like aklex05w gives it to aklex04w, which sends
it on to aklndcvu, which is running sendmail 8.9.1.  Fair 'nuff.

It looks like aklip01u can't pull the reverse DNS on aklndcvu, though,
and doesn't recognize the machine.  It uses smap, which I'm not certain
on, and UUCP giving it to aklip01u which sends it on to gamerz.net (who
uses Sendmail Pro 8.9.3).

To be honest, my guess is the problem is between aklndcvu and aklip01u. 
Smap, which I can't find much about on a quick Google search, seems to
be a firewall-related protocol which I can't imagine bothering this.  I
would wager that the problem is with the internal setup, and is probably
also showing a sign of it when it says in the second Received: line from
the top as "uucp@localhost", because, IIRC, UUCP uses a single period on
a line for an EOF.

Then again, I could be wrong.

SeanMike

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