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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
