Re: strange mail problem

It reads like a DNS error some where... they are not passing along '.org'
correctly and just dumping any email in the bit bucket along the way.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Kaufman" <glandix-5N9U/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:48 AM
Subject: [linux-help] strange mail problem


> i'm running postfix 2.0.11 on a CPUBuilders OS (essentially the same as
> RH9) and getting some strange things happening when sending mail.
>
> Here are the tests I've run:
> glandix-5N9U/[email protected] -> [email protected] : WORKS
> glandix-keFHqvEDeV58UrSeD/[email protected] -> [email protected] : WORKS
> glandix-keFHqvEDeV58UrSeD/[email protected] -> [email protected] : WORKS
> glandix-5N9U/[email protected] -> [email protected] : FAILS
> glandix-5N9U/[email protected] -> <anything>@stratitec.com : FAILS
>
> The thing that's really blowing my mind is that anything sent from my
> lloydnet.org address to any stratitec.com address NEVER appears in the
> maillog on mail.stratitec.com!  No connections what-so-ever are made
> from mail.lloydnet.org to mail.stratitec.com!  I don't have access to
> the logs on mail.lloydnet.org (it's actually hosted by powweb.com), so I
> don't know if anything appears in the maillog there.
>
> Essentially, the e-mail sent from glandix-5N9U/[email protected] to anything at
> stratitec.com just disappears. I'm able to send/receive other e-mail
> with both my stratitec and (obviously) lloydnet.org addresses.
>
> Mail client settings have been quadruple+ checked, so i'm 100% positive
> they are all correct ... besides, i can use powweb's webmail interface
> to mail.lloydnet.org and I get the same problem ... hell, i can telnet
> to port 25 and do smtp commands by hand and i still get the same
> problem... (no errors are displayed and they're running postfix as
> well).
>
> thanks,
> -g-
> -- 
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