Fedora 8 mailserver: receiving ALMOST no mail from this list

Steven P. Ulrick lists at afolkey2.net
Mon Jun 29 09:06:04 UTC 2009


> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 17:39:59 -0500,
>   Linus Ulrick <meow8282 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Slightly off of the thoughts stated above, but I have a free DNS
> > account with dnsexit.com.  So in rare situations where my IP address
> > does change I just change my IP address at dnsexit.com and everything
> > is back to normal.
> 
> Just remember the DNS records have TTLs associated for them and it may
> take a while (on the order of a day) for cached records to expire.
> Even for planned changes where you can lower the TTLs, some ISPs don't
> honor the TTLs and will cache them for on the order of a day anyway.
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there perhpas a misconfigured mx-entry in your dns-entry?
> 
> Also, check /var/log/maillog, if you find mails you haven't potentialle 
received.
> Perhaps, mails are still in mailq?
> 
> Or, do you have a spamfilter that does to much work? ;)
> 
> Roger

Hello Roger
OK.  Now this situation is kind of strange.  After I sent my initial message 
on this subject to the list, I tried something that should NOT have worked: I 
removed: I removed "smtp.comcast.net" from being a smarthost.  Ran the 
required "make" command in the "/etc/mail" directory.  Restarted "sendmail"  
The result is, that after running all night, KMail shows 29 messages from this 
list in BOTH my gmail.com and my afolkey2.net accounts!  Now after I attempt 
to send this message, I will really find out if this will work perfectly or 
not, because a LONG time ago I had to define "smtp.comcast.net" as smarthost, 
or I could not even send email from my afolkey2.net account.  For now, anyway, 
the problem I initially brought to this list is resolved :)  So, we'll see...

Thank You,
Steven P. Ulrick




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