Charles,
You may not have secondary MX records, but on the IP assigned to the
orotech.net name, there is a mail server and if for some reason the mail did
not get to mail.orotech.net, the senders might try the domain name. If that
host is setup to 'store and forward' (hold email and deliver later), that
would do exactly what you have seen.
My guess is that there was a DNS problem, so outside senders were not
getting the IP of IMail, so tried the domainname, which accepted and held
all your incoming email. Once DNS problems were cleared, then you got the
flood of old mail.
Are you getting outside email, now?
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Not receiving mail
> Hi Daniel,
>
> --Is thundermail.com, the problem domain?
> Actually, I wasn't sure if these list mails would get to me on my
> server so I am using a free account from thundermail.com who also
> runs IMail. Those are his settings. One of the more heavily used
> IP Addresses on my server is mail.orotech.net 205.218.226.190 but
> it happens to all of the domains on the server
>
> --Is your DNS service on the same machine?
> no
>
> --secondary MX records?
> none
>
> Thanks, Charles
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:19:56 -0500
>
> 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
> ________________________________________________________
>
>
> ----- 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
> >
> > Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail.
> > http://www.declude.com
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