Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:32:45 -0600 From: Ryan Tucker <rtucker@crasher2.ttgcitn.com> To: Terry Todd <tlt@tltodd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, SmartList@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: mail problems Message-ID: <199812110232.UAA20983@crasher2.ttgcitn.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Dec 1998 09:06:16 CST." <199812091506.JAA01546@tltodd.com>
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Terry Todd <tlt@tltodd.com> wrote: : I'm having one problem though. : Quite frequently I get mail messages that end up staying in the : queue for several days. They typically show up as follows: : : mailq : Mail Queue (1 request) : --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ : JAA21821* 3311 Fri Dec 4 09:47 amailinglist@tltodd.com : 8BITMIME (someuser@sprintmail.com... reply: read error from crow.a) : someuser@sprintmail.com Sounds like, for whatever reason, sprintmail (etc) aren't accepting mail from your system. Try this: [rtucker@crasher2 rtucker]$ host sprintmail.com sprintmail.com has address 209.178.63.10 sprintmail.com has address 209.178.63.11 sprintmail.com has address 209.178.63.12 sprintmail.com mail is handled (pri=10) by raven.a001.sprintmail.com sprintmail.com mail is handled (pri=10) by crow.a001.sprintmail.com sprintmail.com mail is handled (pri=10) by magpie.a001.sprintmail.com Then telnet to port 25 on each system listed as "mail is handled by"... it should give you something like: [rtucker@crasher2 rtucker]$ telnet crow.a001.sprintmail.com 25 Trying 209.178.63.10... Connected to crow.a001.sprintmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 crow.prod.itd.earthlink.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.5; Thu, 10 Dec 1998... If it doesn't, it might give you an error... that'd be helpful. Otherwise, it might be a good idea to get in touch with postmaster@sprintmail.com and see what they see from their side. Be patient -- from what I'm gathering, you're running your mailing list from a dialup connection. Oftentimes, postmasters doing scans through mail logs will see a whole bunch of messages coming from a dialup address and then put spamblocks on. I do that -- it's plain old common sense these days. Another solution might be to reconfigure sendmail to use your ISP's mail server as a smartlist. It'd solve numerous problems, including this particular one. Check with your ISP first, though. Hope this helps. :-) -rt -- Ryan Tucker <rtucker@ttgcitn.com> http://www.ttgcitn.com/~rtucker/ GSM/VM/Fax: +15157712865 Box 57083, Pleasant Hill IA 50317-0002 Feel free to add me to your First Degree at http://www.sixdegrees.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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