Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-10 Thread chip . wiegand
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/07/2003 06:17:57 AM: On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that, it just sits on simradusa# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp Trying 216.136.129.5... and never connects. OK, so you can be reasonably sure your ISP is

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 10, 2003, at 3:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Chuck, and the others with the same suggestion. I've set that parameter in the freebsd.mc file and still have the same problem. I ssh'd into my current web server box, running RedHat, and sent a message from the cli mail and watched the

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2003 03:23:43 PM: The timeouts look suspicious. Is your upstream blocking outgoing SMTP connections (perhaps in an attempt to stop spam)? A quick way to check would be to: telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com

Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread chip . wiegand
I've got to get this working. The suggestion that DNS is not working right can't be correct, I can browse the web and do traceroutes to named sites without a problem. The emails sent from the command line mail never arrive at the destination. I don't know what to check/fix to make it work. At

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
What does 'mailq' tell you? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread Lucas Holt
Just out of curiosity have you used nslookup to check if MX records are resolving ok? Have you checked the logs? Does your host have forward and reverse dns working correctly and they match? Mail servers often reject mail coming from machines without proper dns entries. DNS not working

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread chip . wiegand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2003 01:23:22 PM: What does 'mailq' tell you? ___ Here is the results of mailq - simradusa# mailq | less /var/spool/mqueue (8 requests) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time-

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread chip . wiegand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2003 01:40:52 PM: Just out of curiosity have you used nslookup to check if MX records are resolving ok? Here are some nslookup results - simradusa# nslookup www.simrad.com Server: ussea01.simrad.net.int Address: 157.237.65.101 Name:simrad.com Address:

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:37:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simradusa# mailq | less /var/spool/mqueue (8 requests) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient--- hA6KKrBZ0040865 Thu Nov 6 12:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread chip . wiegand
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2003 03:23:43 PM: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:37:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simradusa# mailq | less hA4F8udC099278 13 Tue Nov 4 07:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.)

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread slave-mike
You need to configure sendmail to route via your ISP's SMTP gateway. Many IP's are listed in a 'dial up user blacklist', and yahoo, aol, etc will reject your mail otherwise. REF: SmartHost in you sendmail config. webmin is your friend. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on

Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:32:31PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The timeouts look suspicious. Is your upstream blocking outgoing SMTP connections (perhaps in an attempt to stop spam)? A quick way to check would be to: telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp No response would