Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Tony Nelson wrote:
At 2:14 PM -0400 6/28/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
I had been using Mail -s "msg-logs" bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
/var/spool/mail/bobg
until about three weeks ago when it quit working.
I am beginning to think that my ISP has done something to cause these
messages not to go through since it appeared to me that they were
making
changes that created a lot of disruption in the mail server
operation at
that time.
I have been trying to send other files such as:
Mail -s "msg-logs" bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
/home/bobg/ootext/FAP.txt
with no success, nothing comes back? Normally these are filtered
into a
Thunderbird directory "msg-logs" The filter set up looks ok. I
haven't
changed anything there and if it didn't work I would hope the mail
would
just show up in Inbox.
Is there a way I could see the outgoing message to be sure it is
actually being sent?
Can someone suggest a logical way to troubleshoot this problem? I've
been putting this problem off but it's an annoyance that needs
fixing!
Have you looked in /var/log/maillog for an error message? It is
possible in the changes you mentioned, your ISP now requires
authentication before accepting mail. Another possibility is that
your ISP now requires that the there be a reverse DNS for the
hostname of the mail server that is sending it a message.
Mikkel
"reverse DNS?" Wireshark displayed a number of lines about DNS which
I did not understand. I hate to admit it but what's a reverse DNS?
Guess I need to look that up ...
Bob Goodwin
Ok, I see reverse DNS is simply reversing the process, not sure how that
affects me?
The maillog does show some cryptic [to me] errors:
Jun 28 16:36:55 box6 sendmail[1091]: l5SKaLF4001091:
to=bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:34,
xdelay=00:00:30, mailer=relay, pri=989592, relay=[127.0.0.1]
[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
Jun 28 16:36:55 box6 sendmail[1091]: l5SKaLF4001091: l5SKaLF5001091:
DSN: Data format error
Perhaps someone can tell me what this means?
Maybe I should just wait until I've installed Fedora 7. It may be
different then.
Bob Goodwin
