I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts and both arrived without being deferred.
thats a big relief. maybe the DNS on that machine was out of whack and needed time to re synch. maybe santa cracked into my machine and fixed it or something..it is that time of the year ............. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:38am up 81 days, 18:56, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:34:28 -0800 From: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: all mail getting deferred Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:57:05 -0800 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org very curious problem here, before i goto sleep i think i need to post to see if anyone knows what is goin on. i have one of my servers here on a fast DSL line, static ip, both forward and reverse DNS working, i even have a MX record pointed at it for one of my domains(linuxpowered.net), however all mail to it gets deferred by sendmail. I have also tried Postfix and exim and got similar results(mail would arrive but not get delivered. since it seems to be a generic mail issue i prefer to stick to sendmail on this as that is what i've been using for years(what i know ...at least i think i know). forcing the sendmail queue results in: Running VAA08195 (sequence 7 of 11) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to local... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred for each of the messages, everything, localhost email, real domain email ..alternate vhost email everything is deferred. the real domain for this machine is portal.aphroland.org/216.39.174.24, i pointed the MX of linuxpowered.net to see if it was isolated for 1 domain and it is not. sendmail is configured to accept mail for both domains(and more), everything seems fine .. portal.aphroland.org has a A record for it ..i can send mail to it, sendmail accepts it, just refuses to deliver. .. i don't think it is related but earlier tonight i installed cyrus imapd to test it out, is there anything special to get sendmail to deliver to cyrus ?? when i saw incoming mail wasn't going to cyrus i re-ran sendmailconfig, at that point i noticed the domain i was using was no longer valid, so i updated to reflect the new domainname and have been having this deferred problem ever since. one thing about my domain aphroland.org, one of the nameservers is no longer valid(ns3.aphroland.org) however that does not pose any kind of a problem when sending mail to @aphroland.org so i can't see why it could possibly interfere with @portal.aphroland.org. I have even tried to set a MX for portal.aphroland.org with the same results ..something on my system is misconfigured ...i compared it to my main server (/etc/mailname and sendmail options) and they are almost identical ..... any ideas ?? tia! nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]