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[Ray Jewhurst]

Could this Google thing also be why I can't receive an attachment from
Spain? I'm in the United States.

On Apr 10, 2017 3:27 PM, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:04, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> >
> > At home now, and can answer this a little more in depth.
> >
> > On 2017-04-10 12:25, tony at blews.co.uk wrote:
> >>> Tested a little on vms. I've changed the code to rewrite from with
> quotes
> >>> so that vms mail can understand it.
> >>>
> >>> Try now.
> >>
> >> I get this reply:
> >>
> >> From:   MIM::
> >> To:     TARDIS::SYSTEM
> >> CC:
> >> Subj:   Undelivered mail
> >>
> >> This is MIM::POSTMASTER. I'm sorry, but I could not deliver your mail.
> >>
> >> An error occured while trying to send it, and I cannot recover.
> >>
> >> Actual error is Address error.
> >>
> >> Additional information: 5.1.2 RFC-5321 address. m203si7390587lfm.109 -
> gsmtp
> >
> > That line was truncated. Fixed that one.
> >
> > However, like I said, Google is refusing mails with a source address
> that don't pass various rules they have, which is in violation of RFC 5321.
> And the silly think is that the error Google gives refers to RFC 5321 as a
> reason why they are refusing.
> >
> > As the source address should be used when reporting any problems back, I
> cannot really fake it either, without potentially loosing more information.
> I'm going to try and ping people at Google, but I do not have very high
> hopes of this being resolved. So the answer might just be that Google is
> broken, and you should avoid it.
>
> I'll poke some google friends and see if anyone is in the mail team.
>
> >
> >> The original mail is attached below.
> >>
> >> (it isn't)
> >
> > It should have been. Have been all the time I tested. Strange. Are you
> sure?
> >
> >> Meanwhile, I've got TARDIS receiving its mail as
> >> blah at tardis.recondite-computers.co.uk fine but I'm banging my head
> against
> >> a wall with outgoing mail. on all machines. Google won't play nice,
> neith
> >> will my ISP or my VPS.
> >> But that is another story.
> >
> > Many ISPs won't let you talk SMTP yourself, but you are expected to use
> their mailer as a relay. Might that be what you are seeing?
> >
> >    Johnny
> >
> > --
> > Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
> >                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
> > email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> > pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
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