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birla
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Testing Secondary MX

Post by birla »

Hello,

Thanks for this service. I am attempting to test the secondary MX before I add it to DNS, but I am unable to do so. See below. Why is this happening?

[root@vader zone]# telnet mail.rollernet.us 25
Trying 67.118.43.92...
Connected to mail.rollernet.us.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.rollernet.us ESMTP Postfix
HELO vader.soesoftware.com
250 mail.rollernet.us
MAIL FROM: myaddress@mydomain.com (changed for sake of example)
501 Bad address syntax
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Post by RollerNetSupport »

Addresses need to be enclosed in angle brackets in the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands like so:

MAIL FROM: <admin@rollernet.us>

We are enforcing RFC 822 and the mail servers will reject anything that does not present a properly formatted conversation. The Postfix manual says: "Require that addresses received in SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands are enclosed with <>, and that those addresses do not contain RFC 822 style comments or phrases. This stops mail from poorly written software."
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birla
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Post by birla »

Got it. Thanks!
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