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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:47:13 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU>
To:        jerryr@ComCAT.COM (Jerry Raynor)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not getting mail from outside
Message-ID:  <199907020047.SAA07816@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9907012029090.7218-100000@uw> from "Jerry Raynor" at Jul 1, 99 08:29:56 pm

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> > > I can send mail out and from inside the network but no mail is comming in?
> > > I\'ve sent from outside the domain and nothing is showing-up.  I\'ve looked
> > > at the maillog and there is no ref. to inbound mail at all.  Help!

Its unclear to me how mail was sent from outside, and what happened.  Lets
run a little experiment...

I sent a message to postmaster@montereyhigh.com, without incident:

postmaster@montereyhigh.com... Connecting to mail.montereyhigh.com. via esmtp...
220 net21.montereyhigh.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.2/8.9.2; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:36:49 -0700 (PDT)
>>> EHLO ucsu.Colorado.EDU
250-net21.montereyhigh.com Hello doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.83], pleased to meet you
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> SIZE=195
250 <doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<postmaster@montereyhigh.com>
250 <postmaster@montereyhigh.com>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 RAA38591 Message accepted for delivery
postmaster@montereyhigh.com... Sent (RAA38591 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to mail.montereyhigh.com.
>>> QUIT
221 net21.montereyhigh.com closing connection

<snip ====================================================================>

As you can see, everything went OK.  Did anything show up in /var/log/maillog?

Jon Doran


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