From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 21:28:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEDA1538A for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA05803; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:27:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904010527.AAA05803@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: not getting mail In-Reply-To: from Jerry Raynor at "Apr 1, 99 00:14:25 am" To: jerryr@ComCAT.COM (Jerry Raynor) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:27:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry Raynor wrote, > Nothing has changed that pertains to mail, nothin I know of! I can telnet > to port 25, I don't know what to do at that point but I get telnet to that > port from the outside. You should get something like, $ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mymachine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:24:32 -0500 (EST) This just shows sendmail is listening for connections. If you are not getting mail, and not getting errors, most likely, no mail connections are ever finding their way to your machine. > I also have gotten this error message returned > when trying to deliver to my server from the outside. Although this > message may say other wise I don't think its a DNS issue. All my webs are > up... Thanks for your help. > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... Deferred: Name server: mydomain.com.: host name > lookup failure > Message could not be delivered for 3 days > Message will be deleted from queue Why do you not think it is a DNS issue? That's exactly what the error looks like. I mean, 'host name lookup failure?' What does the MX record for your domain say? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message