On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Matt Hayes <domin...@slackadelic.com>wrote:

>
>
> On 08/16/2010 10:44 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> One of the mail users have problems sending mails to other domains.
>> Looking at the logs, they display:
>>
>> Aug 17 09:49:55 mail postfix/smtpd[24050]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
>> *****.technowave.ne.jp <http://technowave.ne.jp>[210.150.98.251]: 554
>> 5.7.1 <makoto-****...@asmo.co.jp <http://asmo.co.jp>>: Relay access
>>
>> denied; from=<noriyuki-***...@yutaka-japan.com
>> <http://yutaka-japan.com>> to=<makoto-****...@asmo.co.jp
>> <http://asmo.co.jp>> proto=SMTP helo=<Y4>
>>
>>
>> (real emails are hidden)
>>
>> Other users from the same domain (yutaka-japan.com
>> <http://yutaka-japan.com>) are not having problems with their accounts.
>>
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1) Why "helo" does not returns a domain name?
>>     - is that correct / normal?
>>     - "Y4" is a proxy server?
>> 2) Does this user has "yutaka-japan.com <http://yutaka-japan.com>" as
>>
>> mail server in his/her mail client config?
>>     - Is there any way to know that?
>>
>> The normal way which I solve this kind of problem is adding that IP
>> (210.150.98.251) to mynetworks setting.
>> But I feel that is not the best way to do it. I would like to know why
>> this is happening... I have no direct access to user's mail client
>> settings
>> so I have to assume his/her settings are correct.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> A.Lepe
>>
>
>
> You should really look into using submission for user relayed email. This
> authenticates the sender and by all means DON'T keep adding IPs to
> mynetworks as it allows them to relay EVERYTHING.
>
> -Matt
>

It seems that "submission" is commented by default in postfix (ubuntu),
which I just uncommented it.
Anyway, after rechecking the client settings with the user, resulted that
they were mistaken: Problem solved.

Thank you Matt.
(BTW. I won't be using the "mynetwork" fix anymore.)

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