Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Tony Nelson wrote:
At 2:14 PM -0400 6/28/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
I had been using Mail -s "msg-logs" bobgoodwin@wildblue.net < /var/spool/mail/bobg until about three weeks ago when it quit working.
I am beginning to think that my ISP has done something to cause these messages not to go through since it appeared to me that they were making changes that created a lot of disruption in the mail server operation at that time.
I have been trying to send other files such as:
Mail -s "msg-logs" bobgoodwin@wildblue.net < /home/bobg/ootext/FAP.txt
with no success, nothing comes back? Normally these are filtered into a Thunderbird directory "msg-logs" The filter set up looks ok. I haven't changed anything there and if it didn't work I would hope the mail would just show up in Inbox.
Is there a way I could see the outgoing message to be sure it is actually being sent?
Can someone suggest a logical way to troubleshoot this problem? I've been putting this problem off but it's an annoyance that needs fixing!
Have you looked in /var/log/maillog for an error message? It is possible in the changes you mentioned, your ISP now requires authentication before accepting mail. Another possibility is that your ISP now requires that the there be a reverse DNS for the hostname of the mail server that is sending it a message.
Mikkel
"reverse DNS?" Wireshark displayed a number of lines about DNS which I did not understand. I hate to admit it but what's a reverse DNS? Guess I need to look that up ...
Bob Goodwin
Ok, I see reverse DNS is simply reversing the process, not sure how that affects me?
The maillog does show some cryptic [to me] errors:
Jun 28 16:36:55 box6 sendmail[1091]: l5SKaLF4001091: to=bobgoodwin@wildblue.net, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:34, xdelay=00:00:30, mailer=relay, pri=989592, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Jun 28 16:36:55 box6 sendmail[1091]: l5SKaLF4001091: l5SKaLF5001091: DSN: Data format error
Perhaps someone can tell me what this means?
Maybe I should just wait until I've installed Fedora 7. It may be different then.
Bob Goodwin