Tax Information Dialog comment

Sat Feb 23 06:05:28 EST 2008

Thanks Derek, my service provider is now chewing on it. Hopefully it will be
resolved soon. - Tom

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Ahh, now I see.
>
> Okay, here's the skivvy.  Your mail gets sent by "yourhostingaccount.com",
> and in fact the address you send looks something like:
>  SRS0=DU8GHa=TG=havendale.net=thomaspeterson at yourhostingaccount.com
>
> Well, the anti-spam sender-verify system on the server tries to
> verify this address, but yourhostingaccount.com closes the connection
> when it receives a RSET.  So what happens is that the sender-verify
> tries to send to a bogus address, gets a failure, then tries to
> reset the connection to try the real address, but your hosting service
> hangs up on the gnucash server when it tries that reset.
>
> So... the bug is on your hosting server.  It doesn't follow the
> Internet Mail Standards RFC822 and RFC2822, which is why you can't
> send mail.  I'd complain to your service provider and tell them
> that according to RFC2822 they are not allowed to hang up on RSET
> and they are violating the standards by doing so.
>
> I'm afraid I cannot help you from my side.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> -derek
>
> "Thomas Peterson" <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I found nothing informative when I previously searched on RSET. It
> doesn't
> > appear to be blacklisted per http://whois.domaintools.com/65.254.254.34.
> Here
> > is the bounced message. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
> > Date:     Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:42:38 -0500
> > From:     Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at yourhostingaccount.com>
> > To:     thomaspeterson at havendale.net
> >
> > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> >
> > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> >
> >   gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >     SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<SRS0=UyxYY+=TK=
> > havendale.net=thomaspeterson at yourhostingaccount.com> SIZE=3506:
> >     host lists.gnucash.org [204.107.200.65]: 450 4.7.1 <SRS0=UyxYY+=TK=
> > havendale.net=thomaspeterson at yourhostingaccount.com>... MX 10 '
> > mail.yourhostingaccount.com.' [65.254.254.56] for <SRS0=UyxYY+=TK=
> > havendale.net=thomaspeterson at yourhostingaccount.com> did not accept
> RSET:
> >     retry timeout exceeded
> >
> > ------ This is a copy of the message's headers. ------
> >
> > Return-path: <thomaspeterson at havendale.net>
> > Received: from mailscan11.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.15.11] helo=
> > mailscan11.yourhostingaccount.com)
> >     by mailout09.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim)
> >     id 1JRPua-0001Et-0X
> >     for gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:41:20 -0500
> > Received: from impout02.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.55.2] helo=
> > impout02.yourhostingaccount.com)
> >     by mailscan11.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim)
> >     id 1JRPuZ-0000vv-ST
> >     for gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:41:19 -0500
> > Received: from authsmtp03.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.18.3])
> >     by impout02.yourhostingaccount.com with NO UCE
> >     id rNhK1Y00203yUm20000000; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:41:19 -0500
> > X-EN-OrigOutIP: 10.1.18.3
> > X-EN-IMPSID: rNhK1Y00203yUm20000000
> > Received: from 63-231-149-119.mpls.qwest.net ([63.231.149.119] helo=[
> 10.0.0.3
> > ])
> >     by authsmtp03.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtpsa
> (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
> >     (Exim)
> >     id 1JRPuZ-0007O6-JW
> >     for gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:41:19 -0500
> > Message-ID: <47BAB26D.5040009 at havendale.net>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:41:49 -0600
> > From: Thomas Peterson <thomaspeterson at havendale.net>
> > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Tax Information Dialog comment
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > X-EN-UserInfo:
> > 014df173a0ec33b6f27856d4c99bae8f:6519a61055ec732d650811a9bb43f50b
> > X-EN-AuthUser: thomaspeterson at havendale.net
> > Sender:  Thomas Peterson <thomaspeterson at havendale.net>
> > X-EN-OrigIP: 63.231.149.119
> > X-EN-OrigHost: 63-231-149-119.mpls.qwest.net
> > X-EN-Class: impout
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >     Quoting Thomas Peterson <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com>:
> >
> >     > P.S. I had to create a gmail account to send this message because
> my
> >     normal
> >     > email would bounce with an RSET error message. Unfortunately mail
> to
> >     > gnucash-user-owner at gnucash.org would bounce with the error message
> as
> >     well.
> >     > Does anyone know why?
> >
> >     Possibly due to milter-sender trying to validate the address and
> >     failing?  Or it came from a blacklisted IP?  I'd have to know more
> >     information in order to look in the logs and see.
> >
> >     > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >     > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> >
> >     -derek
> >
> >     --
> >           Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> >           Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> >           URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> >           warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
> >
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>