Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: ns_sendmail replacement?

27: Re: ns_sendmail replacement? (response to 1)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 02/06/03 05:42 PM

Have applied Tilmann's hand patch but still getting this error :

Now we're really in trouble because we got this error: 
    Expected a 250 status line; got:
501 5.0.0 Invalid domain name
  
when trying to send you the following email: 
Subject: Your forgotten password on The Militaria Exchange

Please follow the following link to reset your password:

https://63.246.3.10:8446/user/password-update?password%5fold=DF9F0A86B&user%5fid=2604

Any ideas?

Regards
Richard

28: Re: ns_sendmail replacement? (response to 27)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 02/06/03 05:56 PM

That error is what you get when your EHLO or HELO host name is messed up. There was a bug (fixed now in 4.0) where it would send

EHLO AOLServer yourserver.com

rather than simply "EHLO yourserver.com". The fix is in aolserver/tcl/ns_sendmail.tcl and you can see it in CVS at aolserver.

Another way this can be broken is if you send the hostname with a port. e.g.

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 test.xorch.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:58:11 GMT
EHLO xarg.net:8080
501 5.0.0 Invalid domain name

I think it sends the hostname from the config.tcl file which should not have the port on it iirc.