This is from the manual but I don't know how to take advantage of it:
Our SMTP servers are configured as secure relays. This means that you cannot simply reference "mail.yourdomain.com" as an Outgoing mailserver unless you successfully log in via one of your pop3 accounts at "mail.yourdomain.com' before you try to send. This is a mandatory setting to prevent spammers from using our mailservers as havens for unsolicited email. If you are getting a "relaying prohibited" or "disconnected by administrator" error, it means that you haven't logged into the pop3 server at your domain before you tried to send through the smtp server at your domain. To log in, you need to check for mail first.
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From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com>
Date: 2004/06/18 Fri PM 05:55:43 GMT
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
I believe that David was trying to establish whether the code was
running as root or not, since only root can open server ports lower in
number than 25. To connect as a client, though, you need no special
privileges, and any effective user ID is fine.
Since you're using the Net::SMTP library, you're obviously connecting
as a client to the mailhost, so the port number won't be an issue. In
fact, since the error you're seeing is one of the standard SMTP codes,
you've already connected to the server and begun a session when it
happens.
My guess is that you're being blocked from sending mail due to the
security and/or anti-spam policies configured into your ISP's SMTP
server. My guess is that something about the format of your message is
triggering a spam filter -- i.e., connecting from an IP address
outside the ISP's netblock, having mismatched senders in the message
headers and sendmail call, or something similar.
alternately, you could just contact your ISP and ask someone what
their policy is on scripting mail transmission.
> What is a restricted account?
>
> >
> > From: David Ross <dross@code-exec.net>
> > Date: 2004/06/18 Fri AM 04:25:19 GMT
> > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> > Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > Net::SMTP.start(
> > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > 25,
> >
> > What OS are you using? Try a port beyond 1024.
> > Are you running that code in a restricted account?
> >
> > --David Ross
> >
> > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > userName,
> > > password,
> > >
> > > :login) do |smtp|
> > >
> > > smtp.sendmail( msg, "from@me.com", "to@you.com" )
> > > end
> >
> >
>
>
well whoops. Thats what I get for getting language libraries confused (and not
reading fully) To answer your question correctly this time though. Your SMTP
server you are trying to log into uses pop-before-smtp. Which means you need
to log in the POP3 server first before sending mail. --David
···
This is from the manual but I don't know how to take advantage of it:
Our SMTP servers are configured as secure relays. This means that you
cannot simply reference "mail.yourdomain.com" as an Outgoing mailserver
unless you successfully log in via one of your pop3 accounts at
"mail.yourdomain.com' before you try to send. This is a mandatory setting
to prevent spammers from using our mailservers as havens for unsolicited
email. If you are getting a "relaying prohibited" or "disconnected by
administrator" error, it means that you haven't logged into the pop3 server
at your domain before you tried to send through the smtp server at your
domain. To log in, you need to check for mail first.
> From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/06/18 Fri PM 05:55:43 GMT
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
>
> I believe that David was trying to establish whether the code was
> running as root or not, since only root can open server ports lower in
> number than 25. To connect as a client, though, you need no special
> privileges, and any effective user ID is fine.
>
> Since you're using the Net::SMTP library, you're obviously connecting
> as a client to the mailhost, so the port number won't be an issue. In
> fact, since the error you're seeing is one of the standard SMTP codes,
> you've already connected to the server and begun a session when it
> happens.
>
> My guess is that you're being blocked from sending mail due to the
> security and/or anti-spam policies configured into your ISP's SMTP
> server. My guess is that something about the format of your message is
> triggering a spam filter -- i.e., connecting from an IP address
> outside the ISP's netblock, having mismatched senders in the message
> headers and sendmail call, or something similar.
>
>
>
> alternately, you could just contact your ISP and ask someone what
> their policy is on scripting mail transmission.
>
> > What is a restricted account?
> >
> > > From: David Ross <dross@code-exec.net>
> > > Date: 2004/06/18 Fri AM 04:25:19 GMT
> > > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> > > Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
> > >
> > > > Net::SMTP.start(
> > > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > > 25,
> > >
> > > What OS are you using? Try a port beyond 1024.
> > > Are you running that code in a restricted account?
> > >
> > > --David Ross
> > >
> > > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > > userName,
> > > > password,
> > > >
> > > > :login) do |smtp|
> > > >
> > > > smtp.sendmail( msg, "from@me.com", "to@you.com" )
> > > > end
You'll need to use the Net::POP library
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/pop/rdoc/classes/Net/POP3.html\)
to open a POP connection to your ISP's mailhost, then do your SMTP
transfer as normal. Usually, they have fixed timeout of a few minutes
between a POP session being started for a particular user, from a
particular IP, after which SMTP transfers are blocked.
You probably won't even have to read any messages through the POP
session; in most cases, just connecting using a valid POP client and
then disconnecting works fine.
Lennon
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:41:01 +0900, stedak@charter.net <stedak@charter.net> wrote:
This is from the manual but I don't know how to take advantage of it:
Our SMTP servers are configured as secure relays. This means that you cannot simply reference "mail.yourdomain.com" as an Outgoing mailserver unless you successfully log in via one of your pop3 accounts at "mail.yourdomain.com' before you try to send. This is a mandatory setting to prevent spammers from using our mailservers as havens for unsolicited email. If you are getting a "relaying prohibited" or "disconnected by administrator" error, it means that you haven't logged into the pop3 server at your domain before you tried to send through the smtp server at your domain. To log in, you need to check for mail first.
>
> From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/06/18 Fri PM 05:55:43 GMT
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
>
> I believe that David was trying to establish whether the code was
> running as root or not, since only root can open server ports lower in
> number than 25. To connect as a client, though, you need no special
> privileges, and any effective user ID is fine.
>
> Since you're using the Net::SMTP library, you're obviously connecting
> as a client to the mailhost, so the port number won't be an issue. In
> fact, since the error you're seeing is one of the standard SMTP codes,
> you've already connected to the server and begun a session when it
> happens.
>
> My guess is that you're being blocked from sending mail due to the
> security and/or anti-spam policies configured into your ISP's SMTP
> server. My guess is that something about the format of your message is
> triggering a spam filter -- i.e., connecting from an IP address
> outside the ISP's netblock, having mismatched senders in the message
> headers and sendmail call, or something similar.
>
> alternately, you could just contact your ISP and ask someone what
> their policy is on scripting mail transmission.
> > What is a restricted account?
> >
> > >
> > > From: David Ross <dross@code-exec.net>
> > > Date: 2004/06/18 Fri AM 04:25:19 GMT
> > > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> > > Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Net::SMTP.start(
> > > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > > 25,
> > >
> > > What OS are you using? Try a port beyond 1024.
> > > Are you running that code in a restricted account?
> > >
> > > --David Ross
> > >
> > > > 'mail.myServer.com',
> > > > userName,
> > > > password,
> > > >
> > > > :login) do |smtp|
> > > >
> > > > smtp.sendmail( msg, "from@me.com", "to@you.com" )
> > > > end
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>