Would the rdns prevent the sender from connecting at all. I can see them go through EHLO, MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, and even start the DATA but then it seems that the message does not get completely delivered. BTW my server.tab has SMTP-RDNSCheck <tab> "1" commented out with a #. Doesn't this mean that it's off? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Why? Why? Why?
> > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:27, Your Name wrote: > > > > I think this is very likely the problem! However, try and get the ISP to > > admitt or do anything about it! > > I had a similar problem on a setup where the people sending the email > were failing the RDNS (reverse DNS) lookup. You can test the domains by > doing a 'dig' (on linux anyway) command (see below). In that you should > a long list of who answers for that domain, if you don't then this > possibly the source of the problem. You might want to confirm that your > own server is passing a RDNS test since in our case we had double > trouble when we found out that mails were not come in because our > hosting company had improperly setup there DNS records. > > Bottom line: Make sure your DNS and the clients is correct, if theres > is wrong then turn off the RDNS test in your server.tab > > Aaron > > > sample dig output for a good domain: > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> xmailserver.com > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27004 > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;xmailserver.com. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > xmailserver.com. 86400 IN A 208.129.208.51 > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > xmailserver.com. 172800 IN NS NS1.MCAFEELABS.com. > xmailserver.com. 172800 IN NS NS3.MCAFEELABS.com. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > NS1.MCAFEELABS.com. 172800 IN A 208.129.208.52 > NS3.MCAFEELABS.com. 172800 IN A 208.129.208.51 > > > sample output for a bad domain, notice it has no IP address in it: > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> HIDANT.HIDAROOT.ORG > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 48554 > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;HIDANT.HIDAROOT.ORG. IN A > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > ORG. 86400 IN SOA A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. > 2002091700 1800 900 604800 86400 > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert W. Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:08 AM > > Subject: [xmail] Re: Why? Why? Why? > > > > > > > > > > Could the ISP of the sender be causing some grief? If all other domains > > > are okay, then it would seem possible that the offending party is on their > > > end.... Just a thought. > > > > > > /B > > > > > > At 09:26 AM 17/09/2002, you wrote: > > > > > > >My server.tab file has the line MaxMessageSize 20000 commented out (#). > > > >Wouldn't xmail generate an error in the log or send a notification to the > > > >sender? > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 6:56 PM > > > >Subject: [xmail] Re: Why? Why? Why? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Your Name wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I am pulling my hair out! There is one domain that cannot send > > > >larger messages to us. It seems short messages get through but messages > > that > > > >are long or maybe have attachments do not come through. I have monitored > > the > > > >smtp port with an analyzer and found that everything goes well with Mail > > > >From:, Rcpt To: etc. but the data does not complete. In my log I show a > > > >valid RCPT line but I don't have a valid RECV line. The message gets > > > >stopped! Does anyone have any idea why this may be happening? > > > > > > > > > > did you set a maximum message size in server.tab ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - Davide > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > > > > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >- > > > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > > > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
