165342 - Can't ReplyTo emails that have come from localhost

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[K. Bowen]

I cannot reply to certain email messages, getting an error message like the
following when I try to send a reply:
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"An error occurred while sending mail.  The mail server responded: not local
host chem.harvard.edu, not a gateway

. Please check the message recipients and try again."
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The error msg above was from attempting to reply to a message that had the
following headers:

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From - Thu Aug 29 09:53:05 2002
X-UIDL: <[e-mail]>
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from chem.harvard.edu ([128.103.96.254])
          by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP
          id <[e-mail]>;
          Thu, 29 Aug 2002 03:43:39 +1000
Received: from chem (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by chem.harvard.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g7SHgrKp025126;
	Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Errors-To: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Originator: [e-mail]
Sender: [e-mail]
Precedence: bulk
From: Marc Abrahams <[e-mail]>
To: Multiple recipients of list MINI-AIR <[e-mail]>
Subject: mini-AIR Aug 2002 - Surgical Check / Bee Beality
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0d -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
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But while this message has 'localhost' in it's Received From header, not all of
the msgs I've had this problem with have the same...  I don't think.  But at the
moment for the life of me I can't find other msgs with this problem to confirm
that, sorry!  Will post more headers as I come across them (if it helps..?)

Karen

Comment 1

[K. Bowen]

I think now this is possibly to do with the fact I've got multiple SMTP servers
set up.  (Albeit not intentionally - the number of servers listed in the
Advanced window of the Outgoing Servers tab seems to increase with each new
email account I set up.)

I recently discovered this, then deleted some of the listings thinking I was
only meant to have one outgoing server.. which screwed up the sending for some
accounts until I manually added some of the servers back in.

I've just done a hunt in the database & think this is possibly indirectly
related to bug 96207, bug 119609, etc?

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

accepting

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter "not seeing this any more"

=> WFM