I thought at first that these two were the same message, until I looked
again. Anyway, both get the same initial response, which is ...
How are you *supposed* to be receiving mail? Basically, there are two ways:
1. Directly, with other hosts (or a relay host) connecting to your Mail
Transport Agent (MTA) on port 25. This is likely sendmail, but it might also
be exim, qmail, or one of a couple of other MTAs I forget the names of. Do
you have any MTA running in daemon mode to watch port 25? (To check: enter
"telnet localhost 25" and see if you get a response.)
2. Indirectly, from a server that uses POP3 or IMAP4 to deliver mail. In
this case, you'll need to run a POP client like fetchmail to get your mail.
Without knowing which way you do it, there's no way to know what the problem
is. In addition to problems specific to the apps, you might have a DNS
problem -- are the DNS records (including the reverse-lookup record) for
your host current and accurate? Do you have a good MX record? If mail
bounces (rather than just vanishing), what does a typical bounce message
look like?
At 05:24 PM 6/15/99 -0500, Carl T Drake wrote:
>We recently purchased a pre-configured linux machine from Apache Digital
>and for some reason, the machine cannot seem to receive any mail sent to
>it. It can send mail with no problem. We call the tech support, but they
>wanted more money before helping! Our machine is running Redhat Linux
>5.2. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Please help. Thank you in
>advance.
At 05:38 PM 6/15/99 -0500, Patrick James Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>We just received a computer from Apache which had Linux 5.2 preinstalled.
>After setting up the IP address, we tested its email. Email could be
>sent from the machine, but email sent *to* the machine is being
>rejected.
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