On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 22:26, Lucas Barbuto wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been running Exim for a few months at a smallish office site, > recently I migrated the system to Courier-IMAP (with Maildir format > delivery by Exim). > > A few weeks ago a user complained that they hadn't received some mail > from a friend that had tried to send them some messages. I checked the > logs, didn't see any errors, didn't think much of it. However, today > I've had two more users complain of similar problems, not receiving mail > from friends, and not being able to send mail to friends... and when I > thought about it, I'd noticed a couple of occasions when I hadn't > received an email that I thought I should have. I also had a suspicion > that the volume of mail I was getting from this list had dropped. > > So the problem seems to be that somewhere along the line, mail is > getting lost. There are no messages bouncing and no errors in the Exim > logs. It's like the mail just dissappears into the ether. This only > happens for mail to and from remote sites, in house mail seems to be > working no problems. It also only happens intermittently, for example, > I'll ask a question on [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'll receive a copy of > my message and maybe one reply, but then I'll go and search the web > archives and find two or three replies. The problem also doesn't seem > to discriminate between senders and recipients, it can happen to anyone > either trying to send or receive mail. > > This is weird and I don't know where to start looking, I've been tailing > the Exim logs all day and I haven't noticed anything unusual. Has > anybody seen this kind of problem before? Can anyone offer any ideas on > what's happening? > > I've also read the Exim FAQ and found nothing helpful. > > Thanks in advance, > > Lucas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Courier is *VERY* particular about the sending email server domain name matching the one it gets when it checks of the machine - if it doesn't match, it bounces. My logs are running with some degree of scrutiny, and I can see several emails on "re-send" from mail servers that don't match the name in the header - while most are spammers, sometimes some aren't, including occasionally larger legitimate ISPs. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
