Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:31:49 -0700 From: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> To: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <qpopper@lists.pensive.org> Subject: Re: Can't POP mail Message-ID: <p04320401b595c29fe057@[192.168.1.5]> In-Reply-To: <551931707624934073790@lists.pensive.org> References: <551931707624934073790@lists.pensive.org>
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At 10:46 PM -0400 7/13/00, Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sending this to a couple of FreeBSD lists plus the qpopper list in hopes > that I might get an answer in a hurry. > > I'm with an ISP. We are running a FreeBSD with Sendmail and qpopper box for > our mail server. We just changed upstream providers. > > We have a remote POP about 200 miles away and made the changeover to the new > upstream provider there today. > > Since the change, our users in the remote POP cannot connect to our mail > server. On their end they just get a "Can't connect to host" error message. > On my end, when I do a netstat on the freeBSD box I see users with IP > addresses corresponding to the remote location but they stay in SYN-RCVD. I > never see them as ESTABLISHED, and their mail never gets popped. Kind of sounds like maybe a firewall or other filter is blocking packets from the pop host to the users. > I did change /etc/mail/relay-domains to allow relaying from those IP > addresses (but that's a Sendmail problem, not a qpopper problem). These > users can't send mail through the system either. It doesn't seem like a Qpopper or sendmail problem; it's a networking issue. > What might cause soething like this? Any ideas are appreciated, I'll look > into anything -- I have customers that are not happy!! Maybe a TCP wrapper? Can you open POP, SMTP, or telnet sessions to the host? Can an affected user ping the host? -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- I have learned To spell hors d'oeuvres Which still grates on Some people's n'oeuvres. -- Warren Knox To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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