RE: [cobalt-users] Maybe Not a Raq ??

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan/Craig,

Tried the "tail -f /var/log/maillog" but there is so much activity on the
server that everything scrolls by so fast I can't read it fast enough to see
the results and when I tried to "cat /var/log/maillog" the again scrolled so
fast I'm assuming because of being a constantly updated file.

Any way any suggestions as how to better watch the delivery of those
specific test address's?

Also tried Craig's suggestion of:
echo "test" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v thebadaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

And it proved my belief that the mail is indeed leaving the Raq for all
problem email accounts.

Jerry
Net Wise Solutions

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Kriwitsky
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:07 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Maybe Not a Raq ??


> I have a customer that is hosted on one of our Raq4r's and is
> having trouble getting email to contacts in Asia (Taiwan,
> Hong Kong, Tokyo).

If he's not having problems anywhere else, I would suspect that it has
nothing to do with the RaQ. If they're using your SMTP, check with the
company hosting your RaQ to be sure they're not blocking some Asian IPs
as many are doing because of the blatant criminal spam gangs being
hosted in TW and CN.

Craig's test is a good idea. If they're using your SMTP you can also run
tail -f /var/log/maillog and see the mail being delivered and accepted
and/or rejected by whatever the next hop in the food/email chain is.
It's possible it's your customer's ISP interfering somehow.

e.g., like this example going to AOL:

Dec 12 07:49:38 admin sendmail[13383]: gBCDnc413383:
from=<me@xxxxxxxxxx>, size=1882, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<016c01c2a1e5$bad9e4e0$bb7ba8c0@BUSINESS>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=pcp856052pcs.palmrn01.fl.comcast.net [68.56.150.219]

Dec 12 07:49:39 admin sendmail[13385]: gBCDnc413383:
to=<someone@xxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<me@xxxxxxxxxx> (214/100), delay=00:00:01,
xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=31882, relay=mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
[64.12.138.89], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK)

I see it leaving my home and then I see it being accepted by AOL.
--
C2002 Dan Kriwitsky

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