From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Sendmail won't receive remote messages Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:40:51 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030826153334.01f0abe8@celine> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030826070427.01f0a9f0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030826070427.01f0a9f0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org OK, Robert, here's the deal. 1. A message sent directly to robert@[yourdomain].com.au ... I'm keeping the real name of [yourdomain] confidential at your request ... appears from this end to go out. It's not in the mailq on my MTA server. 2. If I telnet to the MTA actually running at [yourdomain].com.au, I appear to be able to send a message from here to robert@[yourdomain].com.au . You might let me know which, if either, of those messages actually arrives. But ... 3. If I run the command "host -t MX [yourdomain].com.au", I get 3 results, none of which is the server [yourdomain].com.au ... all 3 are [something].iinet.net.au ... your ISP, I assume. This means that ordinary off-site e-mail will be sent to one of those servers, not yours. Only God and your ISP know what happens to it after that. This is probably your problem. At 07:38 AM 8/27/2003 +1000, Robert wrote: >"Ray Olszewski" wrote in message >news:5.1.0.14.1.20030826070427.01f0a9f0@celine... > > At 07:23 PM 8/26/2003 +1000, Robert wrote: > > >My mail server has been working without a glitch for a number of months. > > >All of a sudden it won't receive messages from the Internet. Local mail > > >within my network is still received. Our ISP is under new management - >so > > >maybe its not a problem with my system! [details deleted] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs