James Pifer wrote: >> The masquerading options are for a different purpose. >> I'm glad you got it sorted out. > > > Although I'm able to send mail to most people without a problem using > smarthost, I still have a few that bounce back with errors like: > Your message was rejected by mail.lance.com for the following reason: > > Service unavailable; Client host [cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com] blocked by zen.spamhaus.org; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=70.62.90.185 > > I'm using the smarthost server that I should be using according to the information: > define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp-server.carolina.rr.com')dnl > Well, according to the headers on this message, your mail does indeed appear to be correctly routed through your smarthost - in this instance cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.122]. It looks to me like the server above is checking all hops against zen.spamhaus.org rather than just the last external connection - that's the only reason I can see for it detecting and rejecting your mail (assuming your smarthost was correctly used to send that mail). I use zen.spamhaus.org on my server, so you're welcome to send a test message directly to me off list and see if it bounces or not (you will get greylisted first for 60 seconds) > Although I'm in a residential IP range, my connection is Business Class, so sending smtp mail is not restricted (at least contractually). > Regardless, as others have pointed out your IP address is still listed in pbl on zen.spamhaus.org so it's pretty futile trying to send mail directly. > Why would I still have this problem if I'm using smarthost? Is there a way to resolve it? > It shouldn't if everything is configured correctly. As I said above, to me it looks more like the receiving server is misconfigured. That might be intentional, who knows, but they will get FPs as a result from anyone like yourself who correctly relays mail through their ISP.