From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 07:59:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA08675 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (freebsd@mercury.webnology.com [207.51.255.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08668 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA06234; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:06:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:06:16 -0500 (CDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List To: Scott Brown cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incoming mail disappears In-Reply-To: <34193D57.73C2@xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, 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. Sounds like you have cislab set up as an MX host for asgard. In fact, I know you do, since I'm looking at the dig output for your domain presently. You need to speak with whoever maintains DNS for your site (looks like Bill Zoudamakis, zoom@cc.utah.edu) and ask them to make asgard it's own primary MX. > Outgoing mail works nicely, as does local mail. I thought the problem > might have been because I didn't have a POP3 daemon, but installing one > didn't help. My sendmail.cf file is unmodified since installation. I > also see nothing incriminating in /var/log/maillog, although I'm not > sure I really know how to interpret that file. POP3 isn't involved. That's only for transferring mail from a temporary maildrop file to a client mailreader. It's all sendmail and DNS in this case, I'm 'fraid. Cheers, Mick