From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7a5fa116269d4e525be04827104f555b@csplan9.rit.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] can't send mail, sometimes Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:41:28 -1000 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: <82c890d00708030324m2dcaea33q8098d46842401b4b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9bdbe946-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Yeah, that's the setup. The server is at the Rochester Institute of Technology; I was connecting with drawterm but a vmware terminal is muuuuch better to use in my opinion. I did consider that maybe vmware is trying to send email directly; I guess I'll have to look more closely at that. John > hello > > what's exactly your setup? a vmware terminal on your dsl at home > sending mail through your plan9 server elsewhere? > > may be your vmware is trying to send email directly instead of > contacting your other server? > > gabi > > > On 8/3/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: >> >> Strangely, though, I don't seem to get the reject when I send >> the exact same message from drawterm, which is why I thought it might >> be on my end. >> >> John >> >> > hello >> > >> > I suppose thats a google reject, use the smtp relay from your provider >> > in smtpd configuration (see /mail/lib/smtpd.direct and smtpd.gateway >> > iirc) >> > >> > gabi >> > >> > >> > On 8/3/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote: >> >> Well, this is incidental to the "google.com job search" thread... >> >> In my efforts to see what exactly they have to offer anyway, I'm >> >> trying to send an email from my vmware Plan 9 terminal. However, >> >> when I try to send the reply, I get this back: >> >> >> >> Your request "smtp net@google.com alicec" failed (code smtp 663: Permanent Failure). >> >> The symptom was: >> >> >> >> Thu Aug 2 17:19:49 HST 2007 connect to net!google.com: >> >> 553 5.3.0 REJECT # home users == spam relays >> >> >> >> >> >> Is this my own mail system rejecting me, or what? I'm not very >> >> well-versed in smtp-foo. >> >> >> >> Also, what's the deal with the utterly and completely broken snarfing >> >> and pasting under vmware? I run aux/vmware in my lib/profile, which >> >> I thought was supposed to fix it, but I had to hand-type the above >> >> error because the damn thing is too broken to actually copy and >> >> paste it. >> >> >> >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >>