On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:49:57 Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Ray <r...@stilltech.net> wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:35:01 Magnus Bäck wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 05, 2009 at 00:26 CET, > >> > >> Ray <r...@stilltech.net> wrote: > >> > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:12:32 Terry Carmen wrote: > >> > > Ray wrote: > >> > > > Alice (al...@example.com) sends Bob an Email (b...@myserver.com) CC > >> > > > (b...@3rdserver.com) I run myserver.com. message goes through to > >> > > > b...@3rdserver.com, but not b...@myserver.com. > >> > > > there is absolutely no trace of alice's domain in the mail logs. > >> > > > > >> > > > am I being blocked up stream, is my server discarding the mail > >> > > > somewhere or ...? > >> > > > > >> > > > any suggestions including alternate mail lists or google search > >> > > > terms very much appreciated. > >> > > > >> > > Post the appropriate section of /var/log/maillog showing the > >> > > misbehaving transfer. > >> > > >> > That's the problem, there's nothing in the logs. > >> > >> Is Postfix running? > >> Is it accepting port 25 connections on the Internet-facing network > >> interface? Is there any firewall in the way? > >> Are the MX records pointing towards your server? > >> Does your ISP block inbound port 25? > >> Can you connect to port 25 from an outside network? > >> ... > > > > Sorry, I should have filled in all this information before hand :( > > Server is live and fully functional. it deals with thousands of messages > > per day and has for over a year. One user can't receive messages from one > > contact. That contact doesn't even show up in the logs as spam or lost > > connection or anything. > > So, let me see: one user can't receive mail from on specific mail > address, but can other users receive mail from that address?, ie, if > al...@example.com sends a mail to us...@myserver.com , is the mail > delivered? >
haven't tested that yet. My gut feeling is no, but I will test. > Do you have some kind of spam filter "before" your actual mail server? > if yes: which one, and: can you temporarily disable/remove it and > test? > unless my IP is blocking specific email addresses or domains, the entire mail system consists of postfix, dovecot, amavisd new, clamav and spamassassin running under freebsd 7.0. All of the mail components log to the same file. Ray > I hope this helps, > > Ildefonso Camargo
