Hi, I'm having some problems with Snow Leopard Server email (mail bouncing or taking a long time to get in, an hour or more, in some cases).
Can someone please help with clear definitions for (and the purpose of) these settings in the Mail Service > Settings > General tab in Server Admin? 1. Domain name: Enter the local Internet domain name. What exactly is this meant to be (and how is it used)? Currently this is set to "local" I only have one server that runs mail and web behind our ADSL modem/router Hopefully, ports are forwarded as appropriate from the modem/router to the server I do have an internal DNS setup, with the same domain as external for when clients are connected locally. 2. Host name: Enter the Internet host name of this mail system What exactly is this meant to be (and how is it used)? Currently this is set to "mydomain.com" I would have thought that the Internet host name would have been mail.mydomain.com as in the MX record? I think I have used that in the past but my email addresses then looked like [email protected] :-( 3. Mail > Settings > Relay With regards to the delay of emails getting accepted (when they don't bounce and only from some servers it seems, e.g. Apple mac.com delivered immediately) I thought this was caused by my using some "junk mail rejection servers (realtime blacklist)" However, I've check again and I no longer seem to have any of these configured (are they recommended? which ones?) so something else must be slowing down the mail delivery. I notice in the mail.log lots of entries like this: > Mar 6 12:09:06 server postfix/smtpd[52216]: connect from > mailserver.easterncontrols.com[70.90.14.220] > Mar 6 12:09:07 server postfix/smtpd[52216]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > mailserver.easterncontrols.com[70.90.14.220]: 450 4.7.1 > <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable; > from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP > helo=<mailserver.easterncontrols.com> > Mar 6 12:09:08 server postfix/smtpd[52216]: lost connection after DATA (0 > bytes) from mailserver.easterncontrols.com[70.90.14.220] > Mar 6 12:09:08 server postfix/smtpd[52216]: disconnect from > mailserver.easterncontrols.com[70.90.14.220] I thought this was the realtime blacklisting. I also see lots of these: > Mar 6 12:10:42 server postfix/anvil[51922]: statistics: max connection rate > 5/60s for (smtp:68.203.211.226) at Mar 6 12:06:03 > Mar 6 12:10:42 server postfix/anvil[51922]: statistics: max connection count > 2 for (smtp:134.7.73.150) at Mar 6 12:04:27 > Mar 6 12:10:42 server postfix/anvil[51922]: statistics: max cache size 4 at > Mar 6 12:05:25 Are these just spam sites or is something wrong my end? I have checked my email service from outside, using the Web sites that check, and it all seems fine - no open relay, mail server matches reverse dns, etc. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken Dropbox stores your files so you can access from any computer. Get it (and extra space for both of us) for free! Go to http://db.tt/geb9RWb _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
