SMTP Relay into SL Objects

Hey ho -

I have a daemon that receives email messages from an in-world object. It occasionally detects some erroneous conditions in that object and needs to send emails back to that object. I'm finding that whatever SMTP server I use that is *not* hosted at LL I get a "relay denied" error (SMTP error 554 I believe). So what is the name of the SMTP server I can send my emails to at LL?

and lsl.secondlife.com, mail.secondlife.com, smtp.secondlife.com all don't seem to exist

- C

If you're trying to send messages back to the object, you have to send it to it's UUID with <UUID>@lsl.secondlife.com. Just sending messages to the server itself wouldn't accomplish much, but here's the DNS MX record information if you need it anyway:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> MX lsl.secondlife.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30661
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lsl.secondlife.com.            IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lsl.secondlife.com.     3600    IN      MX      10 data.agni.lindenlab.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
secondlife.com.         153824  IN      NS      ns-d.pnap.net.
secondlife.com.         153824  IN      NS      ns-a.pnap.net.
secondlife.com.         153824  IN      NS      ns-b.pnap.net.
secondlife.com.         153824  IN      NS      ns-c.pnap.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns-a.pnap.net.          67110   IN      A       64.94.123.4
ns-b.pnap.net.          67110   IN      A       64.94.123.36
ns-c.pnap.net.          67110   IN      A       64.95.61.4
ns-d.pnap.net.          67110   IN      A       64.95.61.36

;; Query time: 48 msec
;; SERVER: 65.64.221.201#53(65.64.221.201)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug  8 09:18:38 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 220

yes. I already had that part. The problem was getting my ISP's SMTP to talk to linden's SMTP. They won't, so I need to connect to LL's SMTP directly.

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but here's the DNS MX record information if you need it anyway:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> MX lsl.secondlife.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30661
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lsl.secondlife.com.            IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lsl.secondlife.com.     3600    IN      MX      10 data.agni.lindenlab.com.

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Brill! Thank you very much.

- C

Oh, I see what you're trying to do. It sounds like you're trying to relay messages through your ISP from your location to LL's servers. That would be problematic, because ISPs typically only allow for relaying as long as you're authenticated, if at all. A better solution you should look into is using your own SMTP server to send messages, so that you can send them directly from your location to LL's servers without the need for relaying. To do that, you would basically need your own SMTP server. I'm not sure of a reasonable windows answer to that, but a simple linux solution would be postfix or ssmtp (simple SMTP. which you may be able to run in cygwin within windows)