On 7 Sep 2004, at 18:30, Nathan K. Stazewski wrote:
OK, yesterday I asked about why our mailman client wasn't accepting emails.
The problem was that the physical computer had been moved, so it had
attained a new IP and port 25 was being blocked at that IP by our firewall.
Our IT has since changed the directing, and it seems that everything is
directing to the new IP and the port can now be telnetted to, so I figure
that must be working. What else needs to be changed though?
If the hostname is still the same then you may not need to change the Mailman config file.
Right
afterward these changes had been made, I was able to send emails from on our
campus and they went through. Then I tried to send from AOL.went
through.tried from hotmail and another college's server.neither shows up and
they're not pending. After sending about 15 test emails.all emails stopped
coming through.no matter where I send them from. Is there anything on the
Mac that I need to change since the IP is different?
What has changed hostname or its IP number? Which of either or both?
I was told that I needed an MX record published, and I have never even heard of this.
An MX DNS record is not strictly necessary if the machine concerned has a public IP number and an DNS A record is published for it, which it is. I have now been able to telnet to port 25 on alumni-office.swarthmore.edu from outside your domain which was not possible before.
I
googled it and got the gist of it.but haven't a clue if I still need to do
that after other stuff was fixed. I apologize for my ignorance.but this is
being run from a Mac and the only person that had anything to do with this
listserv no longer works here, so all I know is that it's a Mailman client
using postfix.
If these message that you are talking about are not being bounced then you need to try and see what is being recorded by the machine's MTA in its log (maybe /var/mail/log) and in the Mailman server's logs (sorry I do not know where they are stored on a MacOS X installation). The MTA log may say whether or not the messages are being received and delivered to Mailman or not. The Mailman logs may give some idea of the disposition of the messages; take a look at the post, smtp, smtp-failure and vette logs. You are looking to see if you can track incoming messages to the MTA->to Mailman->back out via the MTA. You also want to look in the Mailman qfiles/* subdirectories which may show whether files are being trapped in a queue for some reason.
If these new messages are being bounced then what does the bounce message say?
Maybe someone else here with MacOS X experience can advise on possible problems/causes/things to look for which are Mac'ish.
Again.the server in question is alumni-office.swarthmore.edu. Thanks so
much in advance.
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