nullmailer - Sending failed: Could not exec program

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Mon Jun 23 00:29:11 UTC 2014


On Sunday 22 June 2014 12:23:33 Chris Green did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:37:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 June 2014 06:55:59 Graham Watkins did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> > > On 22/06/14 11:44, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 05:38:13PM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> > > >> On 21/06/14 16:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > >>> On Saturday 21 June 2014 11:33:01 Graham Watkins did opine
> > > >>> And Gene did reply:
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> That is an outside address. Does your dns resolver know who
> > > >>> ntlworld.com is?
> > > >> 
> > > >> Haven't the foggiest. How would I check?
> > > > 
> > > > Say 'host ntlworld.com' and see if it finds it.
> > > 
> > > Hi Chris
> > > 
> > > host ntlworld.com brings up the following (which was not exactly
> > > what I
> > > 
> > > was expecting):
> > >   host ntlworld.com
> > > 
> > > ntlworld.com has address 212.250.162.12
> > 
> > Security lesson time:
> > 
> > This is an "outside" address. Anyone in the world can find it, and
> > exploit it if possible. And an unpatched windows machine will be
> > rooted by someone in eastern Europe, or even stateside, often within
> > 30 seconds of plugging in the CAT5 cable.  Linux machines are far
> > better, but not invincible.
> 
> Er, what?  ntlworld.com *has* to be what you call an 'outside'
> address, that's how it works, otherwise you wouldn't be able to send
> E-mail to anyone with a <someone>@ntlworld.com address.
> 
> ... or isn't that what you were trying to say?

No, I now understand that ntlword.com is his web hosting service. As such 
it hasn't a thing to do with his email problem.  Thats what I get for 
trying to read between the lines of the OP's original posts.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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