Ack. I just realized the first time I sent this message to the list it was
MIME encoded. My apologies.
I'm having a problem which I suspect MIGHT be DNS related, but I'm not
sure. I'm 99.9% sure my DNS is correctly configured. Here's the problem:
Domain A, dogphone.com, is set up with a "nobody" alias, which is a Program
type alias.
Domain B, nerosoft.com, is my domain.
Both domains are running on the same IMail server.
My mail client, by default, uses nerosoft.com for all outgoing SMTP
connections. Let's say I write a message:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test
This message is sent by my mail client by connecting to port 25 on
nerosoft.com. IMail accepts the message, but it can't deliver it. According
to the log below, it thinks that "nerosoft.com" is not local, and therefore
can't deliver "nobody" to it.
20001124 232430 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (1D420238) [216.13.3.194] connect
216.13.3.194 port 2603
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] EHLO
dante.nerosoft.com
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122] RCPT
TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (2652025E) [24.66.26.122]
C:\IMail\spool\D3f0425e.SMD 633
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTP (3036) processing
C:\IMail\spool\Q3f0425e.SMD
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTP (3036) ERR nerosoft.com not local
nobody from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTP (3036) Creating message from Postmaster
20001124 232436 127.0.0.1 SMTP (3036) finished
C:\IMail\spool\Q3f0425e.SMD status=2
Incidentally, in the second-from-last line above, it says "Creating message
from Postmaster" - which it indeed does, but this message sits in the
C:\IMail\spool directory for a good long time (up to an hour) before it is
ever delivered back to me.
OK, so my suspicion is that it has something to do with the HOSTS file, and
a missing entry, although I've tried putting nerosoft.com,
mail.nerosoft.com, dogphone.com and mail.dogphone.com into it, both with
the actual IPs and with 127.0.0.1, with no luck. Interestingly enough, this
seems to affect the NOBODY alias only - all other users work just fine.
Changing my mail client to use mail.dogphone.com for outgoing SMTP
connections fixes the problem - for the dogphone.com domain, anyway. That's
obviously not an acceptable solution.
Incidentally, when the server error message DOES get delivered, it states
the following:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:47:22 -0500
From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Undeliverable Mail
X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v20001027>
Invalid final delivery userid: nobody@localhost
Original message follows.
-------------------------------------------------------------
I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing. Anyone care to offer some
insight?
_______________________
Scott MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9184011
http://www.nerosoft.com
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