Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:07:18 -0600 From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config... Message-ID: <200403281507.18984.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040328202953.GA49832@tao.thought.org> References: <20040328202953.GA49832@tao.thought.org>
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On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals > seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, > and spam (of course :-|) gets through. > > I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that > may have been causing problems. The only "hint" is from > a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a > bounce while sending mail to "kline@though.org" (note: no 't') > worked. > > Any ideas on this? either your DNS records are/were hosed, or your MTA is mis-config'd. Try http://www.dnsstuff.com to scope out your DNS records, and remember that changes take some time to propogate. Is your MTA sendmail, exim, or what? Are you set up to use a smart host to relay outgoing mail, or are you sending from your host? Are you receiving on your host, or POP'ing/IMAP'ing another host? Jay Moore
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