On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

>
> Hello list,
>
> OK, This message just might shed a bit of light in the whole problem.
>
> Here it goes.
>
> Just to be on the safe side I tried to telnet on the ISPs' pop3
> server via telnet through my xmail box. The reason I did this is
> because I checked everything except making sure the box can telnet
> out to the real world. The reason being that xmail sits in the DMZ
> behind a linux ipchains firewall.
>
> Frederik, this is for you :-)
>
> Unfortunaly, it worked fine. I was hoping that I coulnd't telnet out
> from Xmail, hence the undelivered messages problem.
>
> I've encountered something new today though. I did try to send
> messages from the xmail box to my hotmail account. I tried six times.
> And six times I got the following message :
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> [<00>] XMail bounce: Rcpt=[[EMAIL PROTECTED]];Error=[The maximum number of
> delivery attempts has been reached]
>
>
> [<01>] Error sending message [1032539900260.28699.jeckyl] from
> [internal_domain_name.gr].
>
> ID:        <S191>
> Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Rcpt To:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> [<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was:
>
> The maximum number of delivery attempts has been reached
>
>
> [<05>] Here is listed the initial part of the message:
>
> Received: from cq (127.0.0.1)
>       by localhost with [XMail 1.10 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server]
>       id <S191> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>       Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:38:02 +0300
> subject: test . . .
> test
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >From what it says, it reached maximum resend attemts. Which must
> mean that xmail does not get an ACK from the outside ?
>
> Any ideas ? Anyone ? I can't go further than the above deduction.

try to look at the corrsponding spool/??/??/slog file. is your XMail box
enable to shoot DNS quesries directly to the outside world ( check you
firewall ).



- Davide


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