Bah...I read too quickly and thought that this message was to me...
disregard! :-)
Jeff Underwood
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WestCoastNet
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Multiple Copies of Email Messages
> The headers show different arrival times but this is getting
> really annoying getting several hundred copies of one message
> in 24 hours.
> Also one remote mail servers admins is telling me he is getting
> all mail to my domain sent back.
A couple things here:
First, your firewall is breaking RFCs by blocking the mail greeting.
Not a big deal, but just thought you should know.
The only time I have seen this happen before was with a different mail
server (Unix) that would disconnect immediately after accepting the
message. The sending SMTP didn't receive confirmation that the mail was
delivered, so it would keep trying -- but, the Unix machine delivered
the mail successfully.
Second problem -- I've been sitting here for about 2 minutes now waiting
for a response back from the "MAIL FROM:" command. Nothing yet.
I'm guessing that your firewall is FUBAR and is mucking around with
SMTP. Your server is responding reasonably quickly, so I doubt that it
should be taking minutes to respond to the MAIL FROM: unless some sort
of lookup is being done. The firewall may be doing DNS lookups, but
using a poor or no DNS server.
Since you are hiding your mail server's identity, are you running a
program on the IMail server that gets the mail and passes it on to
IMail?
--
-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail.
http://www.declude.com
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