Hatem,
I sent a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(note the lack of the mail. Prefix).
I got back two different errors:
Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason: To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account;
this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)
And
Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason: User unknown
A dig on both mail.hahlabs.com and hahlabs.com revealed very interesting
information, and it comes clear that there may be a DNS issue along with an
account config error. First, it does not seem like there is a designated MX
host for your mail.hahlabs.com DNS entry, however, there are two CNAME
records and one A record, directing all requests to your online webmail host
@ mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net. And for that same domain, a dig
for MX records shows no relevant output.
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mail.hahlabs.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; mail.hahlabs.com, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.hahlabs.com. 23h32m53s IN CNAME webmail.register.com.
webmail.register.com. 1m38s IN CNAME
mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net.
mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net. 2h32m57s IN A 64.97.37.170
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
criticalpath.net. 18h16m17s IN NS NS1.CP.net.
criticalpath.net. 18h16m17s IN NS NS3.CP.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.CP.net. 13h4m31s IN A 209.228.15.4
NS3.CP.net. 13h4m31s IN A 209.228.14.4
;; Total query time: 18 msec
;; FROM: www.worldvibe.org to SERVER: default -- 64.69.67.228
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 6 15:52:57 2001
;; MSG SIZE sent: 34 rcvd: 206
A 'dig mx hahlabs.com' shows the mx record of mxmail.registrars.com, and
when I got the mail back from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, it says no
error, but User unknown.
Two possible answers:
1 There is a DNS config error somewhere with mail.hahlabs.com and it is
missing an MX record for correct recognition
OR (and most likely)
2 The user account is truly based at @hahlabs.com and not @mail.hahlabs.com.
Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was not returned. Which leads me to
believe, that is where your Qmail installation is expecting to receive mail.
However, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was returned. I would
take it that hahlabs.com is not a virtual host, and if you do a locate for
that username, you should be able to find your issues.
If that user does exist, it might be a good idea to check the permissions on
the user mail accounts directories. I seem to remember having a problem
with that when I started working with Qmail 'chmod -R 700 ./Maildir' and a
'chown -R user:group ./Maildir' should do the trick.
Some good help would be to post the contents of the
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl output. Perhaps also take a look at running
qmail-lint as this can diagnose some of the most common but easy to miss
config errors (qmail-lint can be found at :
http://qmail.valueclick.com/qmail/qmail-lint-0.55 )
Let me know if that was at all helpful, or totally off the mark.
Cheers,
Sean
Hatem wrote:
> I have no problems sending messages using my qmail server as SMTP and it works
> fine!
> but..
> when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address to it (POP3D service) it
> gives me this error:
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <http://lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=
> ecf79b98111b9ce18f993683524664a1&mailto=1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
> amp;msg=MSG983881337.23&start=240640&len=2857&src=&type=x>
>
>
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:21:21 -0800
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <http://lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=
> ecf79b98111b9ce18f993683524664a1&mailto=1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
> amp;msg=MSG983881337.23&start=240640&len=2857&src=&type=x>
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp;553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP
> account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)
>
> I am totally exhausted!! can someone help a bit for the (hopefully) last
> push!!thanks.Hatem
>
>
