Chris,
Thanks for your pointer on the SMTP delay being caused by a time out on the
DNS I will reverse map to resolve.
I have just been into work to get a copy of the returned external mail and
the message is
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Testing External
Sent: 17/04/99
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ....
This is what I get doing an qmail-smtp delivery from OUTLOOK to my LINUX
mailserver.
Somehow I want the external mail to be delivered to ~alias/pppdir is there
a .qmail config file I have to set up for sptp deliveries.
It all works fine when I send external mail from the mailserver. The
problem only occures with external mail addresses sent via SMTP to the
mailsever. These messages are being attempted to be delivered by qmail and
not put in ~alias/pppdir.
I'm probably doing something stupid, so kick me if I am.
Thanks Robert
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> From: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SMTP Delivery Problem from Outlook to Qmail
> Date: 16 April 1999 20:48
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 07:20:59PM +0100, Robert Harrison wrote:
> > The story:
> > ----------
> > I've set up a mailserver RH Linux 5.1 running Qmail as my MTA.
> >
> > The idea being to use OUTLOOK on the PC's to deliver mail to the LINUX
> > mailserver. The mailserver then dials-up my ISP and delivers all the
> > external e-mail and collects any new mail.
> >
> >
> > Now everything works with one exception.
> >
> > When I send an external e-mail from OUTLOOK on one of the PC's to the
LINUX
> > server via SMTP I get a delivery error saying that the user doesn't
exist.
> > What should happen is that the external mail should be placed in the
> > ~alias/pppdir/new and not bounced back.
> >
> > However when I send internal mail from OUTLOOK it is delivered to the
users
> > MAILDIR on the server fine.
> >
> > If I send external email locally from the LINUX mailserver it is
delivered
> > fine to the ~alias/pppdir/new waiting to be sent out to my ISP on the
next
> > connection.
> >
> > So please can some one shine some light as to why when I send external
mail
> > from OUTLOOK via qmail-smtpd it is returned as undeliverable.
>
> Does it really say that the user doesn't exist? Or does it say the domain
isn't
> in the list of rcpthosts? Your being able to inject mail locally but not
via
> qmail-smtpd almost certainly points to a relaying problem. Do you have
> selective relaying configured, so that machines on your network can
relay?
>
> > PS I start qmail-smtpd from inetd I know it isn't the preferred way of
> > doing it but we only have 10 terminal using the mailserver.
> >
> > When I telnet to port 25 on the server it takes about 1.5 mins before
> > connecting. However if a ppp link is up it connects immediately. Any
help
> > as to why that happens would also be nice.
>
> That's a reverse DNS lookup problem. You can either run local DNS to
reverse
> map your private IP addresses, or you can configure inetd not to do the
reverse
> mapping (and I don't know how to do that with inetd).
>
> Chris
