[Error sending: SMTP greeting failure: 554 nexus.berkshire.net ESMTP not accept]

[mic...@bathrick.com]

I get the following message when sending through pine - [Error
sending: SMTP greeting failure: 554 (server.name) ESMTP not accept] -
I am not sure where to look, a Google search brings up nothing.
Anyone have any pointers?

[Mark Crispin]

This sounds like some man-in-the-middle issue, such as an anti-virus
program (Norton, McAfee, etc.) or perhaps a firewall. The
nexus.berkshire.net SMTP server supports ESMTP and is sendmail based; a
message starting with "ESMTP not accept" (presumably "accepted") is not in
any sendmail that I know of.

nexus.berkshire.net supports port 587, so try changing your smtp-server
setting from
nexus.berkshire.net
to
nexus.berkshire.net:587

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, mic...@bathrick.com posted:

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

[J.O. Aho]

It's the SMTP you are trying to send that gives you this response, which isn't
really correct, the SMTP should have given a 504 or 421.

I suggest you use a smart host instead of using your own SMTP. Responses like
these aren't uncommon when posting from a dynamic ip, as those tend to be the
most common source of spam, specially US (China is still just second).

--

//Aho

[mic...@bathrick.com]

On Sep 23, 10:56 am, Mark Crispin <markrcris...@panda.com> wrote:
> This sounds like some man-in-the-middle issue, such as an anti-virus
> program (Norton, McAfee, etc.) or perhaps a firewall.  The
> nexus.berkshire.net SMTP server supports ESMTP and is sendmail based; a
> message starting with "ESMTP not accept" (presumably "accepted") is not in
> any sendmail that I know of.
>
> nexus.berkshire.net supports port 587, so try changing your smtp-server
> setting from
>         nexus.berkshire.net
> to
>         nexus.berkshire.net:587
>

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, mich...@bathrick.com posted:

>
> > I get the following message when sending through pine - [Error
> > sending: SMTP greeting failure: 554 (server.name) ESMTP not accept] -
> > I am not sure where to look, a Google search brings up nothing.
> > Anyone have any pointers?
>
> -- Mark --
>
> http://panda.com/mrc
> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

Thanks - that didn't work. Does pine log errors to a file somewhere?

Mike

[mic...@bathrick.com]

On Sep 23, 2:12 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:

Thanks - the email is coming from the localhost, not a dynamic IP, but
a static IP

Mike

[mic...@bathrick.com]

On Sep 23, 2:12 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:

Thanks - the email is coming from the localhost, not a dynamic IP, but
a static IP

Mike

[J.O. Aho]

mic...@bathrick.com wrote:

> Thanks - the email is coming from the localhost, not a dynamic IP, but
> a static IP

Could be that all SMTP traffic from your ISP is banned, due excessive spam,
except your ISPs official mail servers, reconfigure your
sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim to forward all mail to your IPSs SMTP server,
which will relay the mail for you to the receiver.

--

//Aho