Can't Send Mail No Longer

Bato mainit
2005-06-07T08:57:23Z

Hi,

In March this year I got my broadband Internet connection and I could go on sending mail as before using my ISPs.

2 weeks ago the base station for my BB was hit by lighhtening and some eletronics destroyed. It took 12 days to repair and to restore my connection.

After this I cannot send anymore my mail with mail programs such as exmh, mail, sylpheed or thunderbird. This is in 3 distros, knoppix, slackware and fedora 3. No problem using web mail such as operamail and no problem receiving mail.

Sending mail ends in the mail queue.

In /var/log/maillog I get:

to=<mainit@operamail.com>, ctladdr=<root@skyinet.net> (0/0), delay=05:05:22, xdelay=00:25:12, mailer=esmtp, pri=750444, relay=operamail-com-bk.mr.outblaze.com. [205.158.62.147], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with operamail-com-bk.mr.outblaze.com.
Jun 7 16:35:04 skyinet sm-mta[1607]: j573WBYl000306: to=<bato_mainit@ispx.com.ph>, ctladdr=<heisspf@skyinet.net> (12346/100), delay=05:02:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1020462, relay=inmxsp.tri-isys.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with inmxsp.tri-isys.com.

or

Jun 7 15:12:51 skyinet sm-mta[1166]: j56NthE8000246: to=<bato_mainit@ispx.com.ph>, ctladdr=<heisspf@skyinet.net> (12346/100), delay=07:17:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1110462, relay=ispx.com.ph., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: ispx.com.ph.: host name lookup failure

Jun 7 15:13:34 skyinet sm-mta[1335]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.232.2) failed: 1

This last entry I never saw before, that is when I could still send mail before the lightening strike.

I noticed that in /etc/resolv.conf the entry now is:

nameserver 203.87.128.3
nameserver 203.87.128.4
nameserver 203.87.132.68
search meridiantelekoms.com

whereas before the lightening strike it was only:

nameserver 203.87.128.3
search meridiantelekoms.com

I have been unable to get useful information from the tech service of meridiantelekoms.

Hopefully this list can help. Please send all replies to heisspf@skyinet.net

Thanks & regards

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Peter

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