Re: [cobalt-users] im not getting email

[Nikolas Samios <ns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'll give my best:

Are you sure, your problems have nothing to do with a DNS-Problem? You
wrote:

 ----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www-hosting.net: Name
server timeout
451 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.www-hosting.net: Name
server timeout
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

<snip>

You got a "Name Server timeout". What happened? I suggest, that sendmail
startet to look for the MX record of www-hosting.net in the nameservers
listed in your network-preference. I don't know, if your using your own
DNS, or if your using your ISPs one. You wrote:

As of now, doing a
tracert and ping to my site, i am getting about 20-50%
packet loss on bbnplanet.net, but i figure the
mailserver should be delivering the mail regardless of
the backbone from me to it <snip>

So... I guess again, that you use your ISPs nameserver - and as you got
a lot of packet loss, maybe your ISP just has some bad problems with his
nameservers, so sendmail cannot resolve the MX (=mailserver in charge
for domain) record for www-hosting.net what ends in the mail server time
out error you get.

The fact, that you have 100 emails queued that are adressed to different
domains maybe also comes from the missing DNS.

Try the following:

- telnet into your raq. Start "nslookup". Nslookup gives you the default
nameserver. Enter some domains. Does the nameserver give answers, or do
you get a timeout? By entering "server 195.185.185.195" you change the
nameserver you'll query. Does this change anything?

- change your nameserver settings to, e.g. 195.185.185.195. This DNS is
working fine, so at least the mails to the external domains should be
delivered out of the queue.

- enter pine or mail or whatever and send an email to a LOCAL user. e.g.
to "admin" not to admin@something. If you get the mail sendmail is
working.

- if your using your RaQs DNS, make sure it's entered in the RaQs
Networksettings.

- try the nslookup-thing from a remote machine to test your raqs-DNS.

- did you already try to restart sendmail? Maybe it's screwed up...



I hope you & the list can find a solution by finding answers to my
questions.

Good Luck,

Niko



Gary wrote:

> I am have a major problem with my mailserver
> on my raq2
>
> Over the AM, i got over 250 emails in my box when i
> woke up, all these
> emails were copys of emails (3-4 copies of each email)
>
> Since then, i cracked it down to my server
> www-hosting.net mail server and not my ISP
> (gci.net)
>
> If i remove for wildcard forward on www-hosting.net, i
> wont get ANY test
> emails at all, if i put the forward back onto my
> account, i will start
> getting multi email again
>
> Right now, i removed the "wildcard' email, and put
> aliases as my most
> popular emails i use, and all email gets or is suppose
> to be going to
> gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> in telnet, doing a "mailq" heres a few that are in
> there, currently theres
> over 100 messages in the queue
>
>     Mail Queue (110 requests)
> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> ------------Sender/Recipient------------
> LAA03221       60 Fri Jan  7 11:42 <MISTICO15@xxxxxxx>
>                  (host map: lookup (frate.com):
> deferred)
>                                    <nickymm@xxxxxxxxx>
> LAA03509      123 Fri Jan  7 11:52
> <rhlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>                  (host map: lookup (www-hosting.net):
> deferred)
>
> <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> LAA03240      532 Fri Jan  7 11:44 <CStMag@xxxxxxx>
>                  (host map: lookup (www-hosting.net):
> deferred)
>
> <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> LAA03266      612 Fri Jan  7 11:45
> <mackva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>                  (host map: lookup (www-hosting.net):
> deferred)
>
> <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---------
> I just got this email as well, with my
> gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx addressed to
> gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --------
>
>     **********************************************
>     **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
>     **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
>     **********************************************
>
> The original message was received at Fri, 7 Jan 2000
> 07:36:51 -0900
> from gary@localhost
>
>    ----- The following addresses had transient
> non-fatal errors -----
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 451 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www-hosting.net: Name
> server timeout
> 451 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.www-hosting.net: Name
> server timeout
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
>
> My upline says it has nothing to do with them rather
> its my server thats the problem. As of now, doing a
> tracert and ping to my site, i am getting about 20-50%
> packet loss on bbnplanet.net, but i figure the
> mailserver should be delivering the mail regardless of
> the backbone from me to it
>
> I even sent a test email from my admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> to gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and didnt get anything
>
> When i sent a test to gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> i didnt get anything either...
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
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