[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-27 Thread Rob Arends
Sweet, so the TTL expired - that's where I thought the problem was - DNS timeouts. So Davide, can you explain When the TTL expires and Xmail tries the A record, why then for ALL the retries, does xmail attempt to send to the same server? If the xmail re-resolved the domain for each retry, wo

[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 22 May 2006, CLEMENT Francis wrote: > An 'non-authoritatie answer' is usual as many isp's do local 'dns = > caching', > and this is not a problem as long as the 'dns cache' observes the = > various > refresh times of the zone. But yes it could be. > > Here when I do a nslookup from my xma

[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Rob Arends wrote: > 1.Xmail asks dns for 'MX' on domain yy.com. > 2.DNS has no info cached on yy.com, asks root servers and works it's way > down to authoritative server. > 3.DNS does not return records in time to xmail. > 4.Xmail assumes no response and asks dns for 'A' on d

[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 22 May 2006, CLEMENT Francis wrote: > First problem : Use of A domain entry (exist) even if Mx entries exist = > for > the destination domain > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Below is the xmail error report (relay denied but this is not the real > problem) when sending ma

[xmail] Re: Cannot find environment variable: MAIL_ROOT

2006-05-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Chris Fink wrote: > I've installed an web app. for keeping track of projects > (dotproject.net). It has an email feature that gives the following > error in the /var/log/httpd/error.log. > > cannot find environment variable: MAIL_ROOT > > > Email from my other web servers wo

[xmail] Re: Local delivery and smail log question

2006-05-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 19 May 2006, CLEMENT Francis wrote: > Ok, Davide, thanks > > And for others cases (redirected, fowarded, ... to internals or = > externals, > either by emails rewrites or smtp servers forwards) does the line in = > the log > confirm that the mail was delivered too ? Nope. A redirect line