>honestly, I am new at this.
honestly, I am knew that. :)) >I have set up other email servers that were a lot more simple than this >and they work fine. Which is the most confusing part. On Machine 1, I >can send and receive email just fine. The email server was set up and >didn't have a problem. > >I install imail on Machine 2, (I liked Imail when I was on a shared server >and I am considering purchasing it) and I cannot send email to any outside >email addresses. ah, the specific log circumstance was to a mail server that didn't respond. I missed that NO mail was leaving. >Here is an example of my log when I tried to send an email to my work >account (I am changing the domains to protect my email addresses). > >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) 250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) >RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for >[EMAIL PROTECTED] this is, obviously, a totally different failure. sendmail is refusing to relay. >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) >QUIT >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) 221 2.0.0 somemachine.anotherdomain.com >Service closing transmission channel >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) Creating message from Postmaster >02:08 22:59 SMTP-(0000007C) finished f:\imail\spool\Q9e95132.SMD status=2 > >I would love to tell you what this means, but I really don't know. see above. > The only thing that I understand is that the address I was sending it > to didn't accept it because it couldn't relay. see, it's not so hard to read the log file. >I don't understand why it is wanting to relay on the other server. "apparently", sendmail has decided that @anotherdomain.com is not a local-to-sendmail @recipientdomain. >I have an SMTP server that is relaying for me what? you're making me "miss something" here >and this should send the email to that other server right? yes, and you've showed two different servers with two different, understandable reasons for delivery failure. Let's keep going, show us more of the log for other delivery failures. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
