[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-17 Thread D. Duccini
testing so far yields no difference with the local option in teh file last i sent myself five emails from an offiste provider, and i only received 3 of the 5 at the redirected mailbox all five of course are in the 'new' directory so i'll do the recompile and advise

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread D. Duccini
Can you try this from the XMail machine : $ nslookup -type=mx bpsi.net # nslookup -type=mx bpsi.net Server: ns5.bpsi.net Address: 209.54.246.5 Non-authoritative answer: bpsi.netpreference = 100, mail exchanger = mailhost-2.bpsi.net bpsi.netpreference = 0, mail exchanger =

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, D. Duccini wrote: Can you try this from the XMail machine : $ nslookup -type=mx bpsi.net # nslookup -type=mx bpsi.net Server: ns5.bpsi.net Address: 209.54.246.5 Non-authoritative answer: bpsi.netpreference = 100, mail exchanger = mailhost-2.bpsi.net

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread D. Duccini
It obviously pick up the lowest. Are you able to send any message (using the XMail machine as relay) to @bpsi.net ? obviously it should. but here's the proof from the log that the system is not redir every message its getting: i grep'd out a username from the smail file yesterday, and then

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Healy
I think I had this problem way back a few versions and figured out that with mailbox as the last entry in the mailproc it solved the problem. Ever since then I've always put it last and never seen the problem again. Try that and see if it fixes your problem. Bill -- From: D.

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bill Healy wrote: I think I had this problem way back a few versions and figured out that with mailbox as the last entry in the mailproc it solved the problem. Ever since then I've always put it last and never seen the problem again. Try that and see if it fixes your

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Healy
it at the end and not why, until reminded by this message. Bill -- From: Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:56 PM To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17 On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bill Healy wrote: I

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-16 Thread D. Duccini
:Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17 On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bill Healy wrote: I think I had this problem way back a few versions and figured

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-15 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, D. Duccini wrote: Davide- We're still seeing the situation where mail does not get redirected to the remote host -- randomly! We currently have the mailproc.tab file setup as mailbox redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] I should note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is another

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-15 Thread D. Duccini
It's very likely a DNS problem. Lookat slog files inside the spool. there is absolutely no trace of the messages in question in any slog dir when you say a DNS problem, what would likely be the cause of it working sometimes, but not others? is it not resolving mailhost info from MX records?

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-15 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, D. Duccini wrote: It's very likely a DNS problem. Lookat slog files inside the spool. there is absolutely no trace of the messages in question in any slog dir when you say a DNS problem, what would likely be the cause of it working sometimes, but not others? is it

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-15 Thread D. Duccini
is it not resolving mailhost info from MX records? is there a DNS cache (within xmail) that may have bad info? When you send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XMail tries to get MX records for domain starting from root (.), if SmartDNSHost if not set. If this fails, then it tries to resolve

[xmail] Re: FORWARDING STILL RANDOM ON SOLARIS/SPARC W/1.17

2003-09-15 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, D. Duccini wrote: is it not resolving mailhost info from MX records? is there a DNS cache (within xmail) that may have bad info? When you send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XMail tries to get MX records for domain starting from root (.), if SmartDNSHost if not set. If