forwarding rootmail: 550 Administrative prohibition

[NNNils]

I try to forward root mail on one of my servers to [email protected]

Mails hang in mail queue with this error:

550 Administrative prohibition

What is it?

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

 

[NNNils]

BTW the message that is sent to root is this one:

Cannot open /var/log/sa/sa26: No such file or directory

What does it mean?

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

 

[NNNils]

Error:

[email protected]
(generated from [email protected])
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>:
host mycompany.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 550-Verification failed for <[email protected]>
550-unrouteable mail domain "server2.myserver.com"
550 Sender verify failed

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

 

[NNNils]

There was a zone myserver.com on the server of mycompany.com

Removing it solved it!

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

 

[websnail.net]

There was a zone myserver.com on the server of mycompany.com

Removing it solved it!

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

That was the same issue on my own server..

Thanks for posting that solution... Would never have thought to check.

 

[Snowman30]

That was the same issue on my own server..

Thanks for posting that solution... Would never have thought to check.

what happens in the case where the zone is on the sending server due to clustering???

I have one server which root emails get sent out from to the master servers address this then gets forwarded to me at my support address which happens to be on the sending server..

ie

server.mydomain.com sends root email to mydomain.com which then forwards it to an address @mysupport.com whihc is on the server.mydomain.com

 

[jameshsi]

I got the same problem here, 550 Administrative prohibition
What exactly you have to do to solve this problem ?

 

[nickb]

What are the entries in /var/log/exim_mainlog

 

[jameshsi]

I wish I can tell you.
You want me to check the log, but the log file is quite big, whould you mind tell me what command u will use ? also, whick server I should look ? The receiving server or sending server ?

 

[nickb]

tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog from sending server ........

 

[nzservers]

try this http://forums.cpanel.net/showpost.php?p=203263&postcount=36

 

[networxhosting]

That solutions works but isn't ideal

While turning of 'Verify the existance of email senders.' works it isn't the proper solution. The reason my server was rejecting the mail was that root messages where being sent without From: header. Is there a way to make sure all email coming from a server has a from header?