From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T07:57:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SMTPFatalError: 550 Administrative prohibition

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