RE: Remote mail not delivered to Maildir

[James Timberlake]

i think i found out my problem but i don't know how to fix it.  anyway, here goes:

 

 

Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day(s)
to the following recipients:

 

  Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day

 

Delivery attempt history for your mail:

 

Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:06:45 -0500 (EST)
TCP active open: Failed connect()    Error: Connection timed out
....
....
....
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:48:35 -0500 (EST)
TCP active open: Failed connect()    Error: Connection timed out

 

The mail system will continue to try to deliver your message
for an additional 6 day(s).

 

 

any ideas on why the connection keeps timing out?  i can manually telnet to port 25 and issue commands there and it delivers the mail just fine, so why would other isp's mail servers not be able to connect?

 

thanks again,

james

-----Original Message-----
From: James Timberlake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 21:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Remote mail not delivered to Maildir

i installed qmail from rpm's and changed the mailbox to maildir in /var/qmail/rc and /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc.  i also ran maildirmake and echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail for a local user.  users/assign exists and i ran qmail-newu to generate the cdb file.  all the processes seem to be running correctly.  i ran all the examples in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive and ran into trouble.  sending mail to a local address works fine, as does sending mail to a nonexistent local address (it bounces).  i can also send mail to a remote user without a problem.  however when i send mail from a remote user to a local user, the message disappears.  it doesn't bounce and there are no errors in the logs (i looked in /var/log/qmail, /var/log/qmail-smptd, and /var/log/qmail-pop3d).  the message never gets delivered to the user.  i checked /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smptd and it says:

    127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

    192.168.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

    :allow

i've searched through the archives and read the mans, but nothing seems to help.  this is really driving me nuts.  please help.

 

thanks,

james