Severe Server Problems (FC4) Follow-up

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:47 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> The [apparent] final issue also deals with email and Thunderbird/Outlook (evil
> program, by the way. if you don't beleive me, read the config file for
> dovecot).
> 
> They can't pickup email at all (one subnet) and on the subnet where they can
> pick email up, they can't send without getting a password prompt, which never
> works.

Can you try accessing the pickups manually, such as telnet?  If that
fails as well, then can you get to the mail server at all?

> During my time setting things up, I setup sendmail.pem (public key) and it
> seems to work fine with Squirrelmail and pine, whether from the server via SSH
> or from workstations.

The same servers that can't send?  Hmmm.  I ask because this smells
a bit like a DNS issue.  StartTLS rules in access want host names and
if reverse DNS lookups don't work, neither will TLS automatically.

> Any pointers as to where to start looking would be nice. Frankly, I'm burned
> out from this project. I do this all day at work, then all night at home. (No,
> Rick, I want no sympathy from you. You have your own issues and I don't want
> to be one of them, unlike my children...)
> 
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