Howard:
Sounds like the mail server. Where is it?
Is CF connected to the Internet in the same Class C/whatever
as your mail server?
best, paul
At 08:08 PM 10/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I discovered a problem with mail we're sending out on a few sites on one of
>my servers. It seems to have particularly flared up within the last 24
>hours, but looking at the logs, it's really been going on for a while, it
>was just seldom enough that slipped under the radar.
>
>Basically, I have one site on this server that is my own. I have my own
>e-mail accounts under this domain. If I send e-mail to and from myself
>using CFMAIL, it is never a problem. But if one of the e-mail addresses
>(either to or from or even CC) involves a domain that is not hosted on that
>server, then the e-mail doesn't go out.
>
>I've never had this problem on any other Cold Fusion server. As far as the
>CF set up and how I'm using the tag, there is nothing different.
>
>Looking at the error log, two common errors are "unknown user," which I know
>is false because some of these "unknown users" are my own accounts on other
>machines. And some of the errors are suchandsuchdomain.com is "not a
>gateway." There is no discernable pattern ... for example, it's not just
>aol.com; some of them are domains I control on other machines.
>
>I'm guessing this is some DNS set up issue, but I know nothing, really,
>about DNS. I have no control over the DNS anyway, but if I could nail down
>that that's the problem, it might help in getting the host (and their
>upstream provider, XO) to fix the problem.
>
>However, could it be something else besides DNS? Could it be the mail
>server? Could it be the CF set up (administrator configured to use the mail
>server for SMTP)?
>
>Hints, clues, suggestions welcome.
>
>H.
>
>
>
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