[cobalt-users] APOP Slowing down mailserver?

["Dee Dreslough" <dee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I'm trying to help Hiu Liu get his mail system running and I'm getting some
weird stuff.

I found a few of the problems - some of the DNS settings were off, but I'm
still not receiving mail from the outside world for our test virtual domain,
Yohuo.com.

And, although I can send out mail through www.yohuo.com, the sending process
is amazingly slow. It takes forever for the server to respond.  It's much
slower than internetbase.net, which is on the same machine. Both servers are
using APOP...Both are set to priority 30.

First of all, any takers on why yohuo.com still isn't receiving mail from
the outside world? It recieves it from accounts on the same machine
(internetbase.net). When I use nslookup, I get the right mailserver record.
And, I can call up www.yohuo.com with my browser, ping it and traceroute it
all successfully...

At first I was getting 'Nameserver Not Responding' errors, and that lead me
to the Nameserver problems, which are now, as far as I can tell, fixed.  Now
I'm not getting any bounced mail messages...or mail. <:P  You can email
test@xxxxxxxxx to see if you can coax a bounce message out of it.

Second, any guesses why the mail server would be slow for one virtual
domain, and not the other?There are about 7 domains total on this RaQ3
system... The mail servers are set to have the same priority now...  The
only thing I can think of is that the base domain (internetbase.net) has
it's base IP in a different 'family' of IP addresses - 207.228.240.46,
wherease all other virtual sites are on 207.228.242.XXX ... All these IPs
are on the same machine though... could someone somehow be throttling or
messing with things going to the 207.228.242 set of IPs?

Thanks!!

-Dee (dee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)