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Re: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

From: Matt Hayes (dominianslackadelic.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2010 - 07:57:32 CDT


On 6/2/2010 8:50 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I am getting a lot of these for various domains...
>
> Jun 2 07:21:08 esmtp postfix/smtpd[55535]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> mail.cypresspartners.com[72.242.211.227]: 450 4.1.8
> <onlinebanking.elartsonlinealert.bankofamerica.com>: Sender address
> rejected: Domain not found;
> from=<onlinebanking.elartsonlinealert.bankofamerica.com>
> to=<deanrplasticert.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail.cypresspartners.com>
>
> I assume these are legitimate rejects since the helo domain is
> cypresspartners.com and I did not find an A record for that domain. Is
> that correct?
>
> Just want to confirm since I have a user not receiving an auto-email
> from BOA. But not this user above.
>
> Thanks, Robert

Considering that 'mail.cypresspartners.com' isn't showing as an
authorized MX for bankofamerica.com, I'm assuming this is a spam attempt
that has failed.

It appears that mail.cypresspartners.com is a postfix server which
appears, to me at least, to be sending out spam.

-Matt