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The SMTP AUTH settings in this post have been updated in a later article<\/a>.<\/p>\n It has been a busy few days. I’d noticed a couple of funny messages in the maillog<\/strong> generated by our sendmail<\/strong> daemon, but put them to the back of my mind. Here’s an example:<\/p>\n In retrospect, the log entries don’t seem so benign. In actual fact, the emails were not delivered<\/strong>. DSN is a Delivery Service Notification, which can be used to notify<\/strong> a sender by email<\/strong> when there’s a problem. It seems I had two problems on my mail server setup, as I didn’t get any email notifications of the failures. Most of the outgoing emails were sent by a PHP program running on our webserver, so may have been sent to the webserver’s non-interactive user.<\/p>\n The cause of this problem might have been harder to find, if it were not for a dim recollection of seeing a message somewhere that TM were planning to block mail<\/strong> from users who had never changed their default Streamyx password<\/strong>. I’m one of those people, and when I saw the recent message thought once again “Oh, I must get round to doing that”.<\/p>\n Well it seems they must have put their plan into action. To test my suspicion, I tried to log in<\/strong> to my mail account<\/strong> at http:\/\/webmail.tm.net.my<\/a> – no joy. You can change a Streamyx password<\/strong> at the TM Billing sit<\/a>e. Once I’d done that, webmail login worked just fine, I reset my ADSL router after changing the Streamyx password, and updated my sendmail auth file<\/strong>.<\/p>\n To make sure sendmail is logging in to the Streamyx SMTP proxy, you must edit your auth\/client-info file and make sure the AuthInfo line is up to date:<\/p>\n Then execute the following commands to compile your sendmail settings:<\/p>\n That’s it! I may have imagined the threat from TM regarding default passwords and the SMTP proxy, but I don’t think I did. If you can track down that message<\/strong>, I’d love to see it again – it bothers me that it has disappeared.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: thanks to mylinear at WebmasterMalaysia.com<\/a>, who pointed out that it’s the message on the TM Helpline (1300-88-9515)! Here she is:<\/p>\nJun 10 00:29:16 box0043 sm-mta[9729]: m59GTFu0009727: to=<someone@somewhere.com>, ctladdr=<someone@domain.com> (1000\/100), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120489, relay=smtp.streamyx.com. [202.188.0.212], dsn=5.7.1, stat=Service unavailable
\nJun 10 00:29:16 box0043 sm-mta[9729]: m59GTFu0009727: m59GTGu0009729: DSN: Service unavailable<\/code><\/p>\nAuthInfo:smtp.streamyx.com \"U:USERNAME@streamyx.com\" \"I:USERNAME@streamyx.com\" \"P:PASSWORD\"<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\nmakemap hash client-info < client-info<\/code><\/p>\n
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