From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 06:53:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04566 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04556 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA14314; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:53:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id IAA20157; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:53:14 -0500 Message-ID: <19970912085314.31220@right.PCS> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:53:14 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: skb@xmission.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incoming mail disappears References: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com>; from Scott Brown on Sep 09, 1997 at 07:02:15AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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