Thanks Jerry for taking the time to reply, much appreciated! I ran the
tests at mail-tester.com and of course that has lead me to come back
here and ask for further help! It appears I have a couple of serious
issues and a couple of minor ones, but I have not found any joy in
solving all of them by searching on the internet. The SpamAssassin
reported the following -
-1.539 FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2 IP used in the HELO request
The hostname should be a domain name, not an IP address
-0.001 MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER Message-Id was added by a relay
which I don't know how to solve. The Authentication tests reported -
Your message is not signed with DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for associating a domain
name to an email message, thereby allowing a person, role, or
organization to claim some responsibility for the message.
I found the JDKIM project for the Apache James server but I am unable to
find any instructions on how to install, configure and use it! Does
anyone have a good pointer to documentation? I read everything I could
find on the Apache web site but only found a couple of bits and pieces
of info, nothing I could grok however. Will it even work with my version
of James - 2.3.2?
There was one other minor problem reporting that I do not have a DMARC
record. But I think I understand how to solve that issue (by adding a
TXT RR record to my DNS server) once I get DKIM working...
Thanks again in advance for helping me find a way out of these
woods.... Marc...
On 09/24/2015 02:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote:
Hi, Marc,
I have had many problems with gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc bouncing my
emails. To say they are picky is an understatement. If there is ANY
problem with the structure of your email and/or your email setup,
domain, dns, server IP address, and a bunch of other things , they are
going to bounce it (with zero useful info to explain why). They also
bounce according to how many emails you've sent depending on how
'spammy' they think the email is. They may let a few in. But if you
send 20 'suspect' emails in a day, they'll start bouncing for a day or
so, then let it start passing thru again.
I have found that the best solution is to make sure your emails and
everything related to your outbound server are all completely clean
according to spam analysis criteria. A good place to start is
mail-tester.com <http://www.mail-tester.com/> Go to the web site and
they'll give you a temp email address that you can send an email to.
After you send it, click the link to analyze the mail. They will
grade your email including the sending server parameters and tell you
how 'good' your email is. With detailed explanations of what is
wrong. My initial score was pretty bad. It took some time and was a
royal pain to fix all of the issues. But I finally got the coveted
100% grade. It appears gmail and others are finally happy with me and
are letting my emails thru.
Jerry
On 9/23/2015 11:32 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi, I am running James 2.3.2 on a Linux (openSuSE 12.3) and recently
encountered a problem that I am unable to resolve. I use the maillist
mailet to manage a mail list for a number of users and now all emails
being sent by the users to accounts at AOL, Yahoo, MSN, GMail, and
Hotmail are bouncing. This is something new and I have not made any
changes to James's configuration for a very long time. I have checked
forward checking on reverse DNS look ups both via dig and on several
different DNS checking websites and that is working correctly. The
log files don't give me much help as far as I can decipher them, the
mailet logs just indicate that there was a problem such as -
23/09/15 16:03:20 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Exception
delivering message (Mail1442594207467-7122-!518000-to-hotmail.com) -
[EOF]
23/09/15 16:03:20 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Temporary
exception delivering mail
(Mail1442594207467-7122-!518000-to-hotmail.com:
23/09/15 16:03:20 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Bouncing
message Mail1442594207467-7122-!518000-to-hotmail.com after 25 retries
23/09/15 16:03:20 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Attempting
delivery of Mail1442594207467-7122-!518000-to-msn.com to host
mx4.hotmail.com. at 65.55.37.120 for addresses [some...@msn.com,
someonee...@msn.com]
This log response varies a bit depending on the exact mail server
that was the target of the email but looks similar enough to make me
think all these failures are related.
I cannot make much sense out of what is stored in the other log files
that relate to this particular problem though I do see a LOT of
exceptions being reported with stack walkback traces. I admit I do
not know enough about these log files to be able to make any sort of
correlation between the errors I see in the mailet log files and
these other errors being reported in other log files. So I am out of
my depths, any kind guru want to help me resolve this?
Thanks in advance.. Marc...
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