Hello.
I am having some problems sending mail to one of the Bluehost servers
(box467.bluehost.com 74.220.219.67)
Postfix logs that the conversation timed out while sending RCPT TO and indeed
it takes some time until the server
sends an OK after the RCPT TO (in a telnet session).
The question on the Postfix side is: can I increase somehow this timeout
period? And for best results I would really
like this to happen specifically for this server.
Further details follow as maybe somebody has some previous experience with such
abusive behavior from Bluehost.
The telenet session goes as
============================
$ telnet example.com 25
Trying 74.220.219.67...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-box467.bluehost.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:20:15
-0600
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
EHLO psw.ro
250-box467.bluehost.com Hello psw.ro [94.62.132.84]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
MAIL FROM: <>
250 OK
RCPT TO: off...@example.com
250 Accepted
DATA
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
test
.
550 Administrative prohibition
QUIT
221 box467.bluehost.com closing connection
============================
Notice that it rejects with "550 Administrative prohibition" which is yet
something I will have to deal with once I
get over the RCPT TO timeout.
The bottom line is that sending from Gmail works which indicates some
blacklisting on their side.
--
Arthur Titeica
PharmEc Software
