Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:53:14 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: skb@xmission.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incoming mail disappears Message-ID: <19970912085314.31220@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com>; from Scott Brown on Sep 09, 1997 at 07:02:15AM -0600 References: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com>
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On Sep 09, 1997 at 07:02:15AM -0600, Scott Brown wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD machine not being able to recieve
> incoming mail. Mail sent to my machine bounces with the message
> "skb@asgard.slcc.edu... Deferred: Connection refused by
> cislab.slcc.edu.". Which struck me funny, because cislab (my gateway
> machine) is a Netware server. Asgard is my machine.
> dig asgard.slcc.edu mx
;; ANSWERS:
asgard.slcc.edu. 86332 MX 10 slcc-pcmailgw.cs.SLCC.edu.
asgard.slcc.edu. 86332 MX 20 pcmailgw.cs.SLCC.edu.
asgard.slcc.edu. 86332 MX 30 cislab.SLCC.edu.
The above information shows that your MX (Mail eXchange) records are
set up so that all mail directed to ``asgard'' is actually handled
by one of the 3 machines listed, in decreasing order of priority.
You won't be able to receive mail directly on your machine unless
the MX records are changed. (eg: add asgard as a 0 MX for asgard).
The first 2 machines appear to be dead (I can't ping them from here),
and the third is refusing connections to it's sendmail port, which
is where the ``deferred'' information is coming from. If this is a
transient error, (eg: the mailer on ``cislab'' is not running), then
the mail will be re-tried later.
If ``cislab'' really isn't set up to accept incoming mail, then there
currently doesn't appear to be any way to send mail to your machine.
--
Jonathan
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