On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 04:06:55PM +0000, Matthew Bloch wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:57:28PM +0000, Matthew Bloch wrote:
> > > Hi there;
> > >
> > > I've just noticed that all the mail on my machine has been backed up since
> > > about the 17th and I can't think what I've done to my machine to cause
> > > this. Every time it tries to deliver mail (mostly by my pitiful attempts
> > > to 'killall -ALRM qmail-send') I get log messages like this:
> > >
> > > Jan 22 15:36:24 meb39 qmail: 917019384.796554 delivery 90: deferral:
> > > Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/
> > > Jan 22 15:36:24 meb39 qmail: 917019384.796724 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20
> > [snip]
> >
> > Type qmail-qread and see if the domains it's trying to send to are correct.
>
> This is what I get; I think this is correct for the bits of mail that are
> in my queue. Does it look abnormal?
>
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> 22 Jan 1999 14:53:43 GMT #835935 505 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (this was a test post to my usual redirection address)
> 22 Jan 1999 14:28:13 GMT #835936 1430
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[]>
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .... etc. (a mailing list post)...
> 18 Jan 1999 20:53:34 GMT #835932 926 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .... etc. (more banal emails to friends)...
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Try telnetting from your mailserver to port 25 of the MXes for these domains.
Greetz, Peter.
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<squeezer> AND I AM GONNA KILL MIKE | Peter van Dijk
<squeezer> hardbeat, als je nog nuchter bent: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<squeezer> @date = localtime(time); | realtime security d00d
<squeezer> $date[5] += 2000 if ($date[5] < 37); |
<squeezer> $date[5] += 1900 if ($date[5] < 99); | * blah *
