Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 FTP/Email Problems and missing accounts

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Fay, Sean wrote:

> I noticed today that I haven't received my daily spam on one of my main
> accounts and wondered what happened. I emailed myself and got this response:

LOL, i guess that's one way to monitor email..
> 
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached: 'webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx' on
> 12/26/01 10:28 PM
> 
> All my account on the main server account and only the main server account
> can't receive email. I logged in the admin and they are all still there. I
> SSH2 in and everything appears normal. So I reboot the server...several
> times. Nothing, still screwy.  My little warning lights came on and the RAQ

Yeash, it's not windows ,stop rebooting the poor thing ;P

> thinks that FTP, POP3 and IMAP are not working although I can send and
> receive email and ftp. I believe this happened on the 24th of December but
> what happened I dont know. Telnet is off, I have portsentry installed and
> I'm just at a loss...

Have you checked DNS ? All the other things depend on names resolving
properly...
> 
> For the life of me, I can't get the red flashy warnings to go away unless I
> turn off the services completely. I've rebooted, restarted and I'm just lost
> right now. What did work for one account is that I deleted it and recreated
> it. That worked and it now receives email again. Am I going to have to do
> that for all?

OK, so the mail server is running, or that one wouldn't work, so the issue
is why it won't accept mail for anyone else, It would help if you used an
email client that actually gave you the error message instead of the
stipid 'it didn't work' message ;P

Look in your log files, they often have usefull clues about why things
aren't working, (/var/log/messages , /var/log/maillog) 
Try restarting services by hand and see if you get messages about things

Running 
/etc/rc.d/sendmail stop
will stop the mail server, then run:
/etc/rc.d/sendmail start
and see if it spews complaints...

Do the same in there for 'named' and see if it's is complaining about
anything....(I'm assuming you are running DNS on that machie, if someone
else is handeling dns for you you will need to make sure it's working from
where ever it is )

Type 'ifconfig' see if all your domain names are in the list, maybe the
machine forgot who it is...

Have you added any email aliases lately? If you do strange things with
email aliases you can also confuse the machine, and it may decide that all
mail for some donain (or the entire machine) is supposed to go somewhere
else, perhaps somewhere that doesn't exist , you can look through
etc/virtusertable, see if anything in it looks really weird ;(it shouldn't
be empty btw, it should have at least one entry per domain name)

I know this doesn't answer your question directly, but you have to do some
more hunting, start with a decent email client tho, or ask someone else ot
send you an email....(You are supposed to get an error from the server
that says WHY it didn't accept email) :) [glaring at ms ]

gsh