Yesterday morning, I went to my office, checked my email, and wrote up a letter to mail to 277 of my emailable patients.
I sent out the letter, using a mailing list managed by Mailman and it went out fine. Several patients noted that they received the email. Normally I always receive several emails back, saying the recipient is out of the office, or this or that, but NOTHING came in all morning, and nothing from anyone else either. I usually will receive 20 to 40 more before lunch. I tested, sending email out, then calling friends and family, asking did you receive my email. Yes, they all received what I had sent, and all tried replying back. None reported any bounced back email, nor did I see any of their messages in my email account. I use mutt to read my email. I have exim 4 running. I ran /etc/init.d/exim4 restart as well as rebooting a couple times, for good measure. I read tonight in this howto: http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html but despite reading through I couldn't find any solution. Jason mentions one item that may hold the clue: "First, if your host has a static IP address that is not located in your ISP's dynamic range, you should be able to initiate SMTP connections to remote sites directly and you do not need to use a smarthost. If such is the case, select "*internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP*". For the rest of us, select "*mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail*" as your mail configuration. The system mail name should be your fully qualified domain name. If you have not deployed DNS at your site, you may opt for using your system's /etc/hosts file to give your host such a name as demonstrated below. (If you choose the first option and you do not have DNS configured, you will probably encounter difficulties receiving email.)" This last parenthesized sentence makes me wonder. I am totally reliant upon my email and beg anyone's help in figuring this out. Thank You, Scott -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
