Charles,
Is your DNS service on the same machine? (Yes it is, I got IMail on port 25
when I used ns1.millenia.com!) If it is, what happens if you only stop/start
the DNS service?
If no mail is arriving at your mail server, then it could mean that it is
going somewhere else (secondary MX records? You don't have any!) and being
held there.
Is thundermail.com, the problem domain?
Here is a session with the server named: inbound.millenia.com (destination
of MX record for thundermail.com):
220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server millenia.com (IMail 6.05 4460-1)
vrfy root
252 Cannot VRFY user
mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
550 not local host ipswitch.com, not a gateway
rcpt to cshort
550 unknown user <cshort>
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok its for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
550 unknown user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looks like this is an IPless domain and you are a valid user in only that
domain and not the primary. If the IP, 216.115.231.128 (or 216.115.239.10) ,
which has the name (in DNS) of inbound.millenia.com (other IPs name is
ns1.millenia.com), is the Primary IP (the one set in TCPIP settings on the
first NIC), IMail is using a 'short' name (see the telnet session above) and
that would REQUIRE an entry in the HOSTS file. Could be some sort of name
resolution problem, that shows up over time (I have seen this before) that
gets 'fixed' by the restart. I am almost sure the HOSTS file is incomplete
or wrong (NT sucks at getting this right). Or you have multiple hosts in
IMail with the same 'Official Host Name' and other settings.
I think you probably have some configuration error in IMail that is
affecting your situation, or as I said before, problems with HOSTS file
data.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Not receiving mail
> That's the thing, nothing shows up anywhere. I don't see anything
> in the logs and the messages never come. Even after a reboot and
> waiting a couple of days. The sender never receives a response
> either.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:36:07 -0500
>
> >In the last couple of days our mail server has periodically
> >stopped receiving mail. All of our users can send mail fine, but
> >no mail comes in and no undeliverable responses are going back to
> >the people that sent them. The messages just disappear. After I
> >reboot everything starts working again for a little while.
>
> What do the logs show? Do they show any indication that there was
> an incoming connection?
>
> If they show no signs of incoming connections, most likely the E-
> mail that disappeared is sitting on the remote SMTP server, queued
> up waiting until your server is back up to be sent.
>
>
> --
> -Scott
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