SMTP problems

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abalajadia

I am having trouble with intraoffice email being sent/received.
Here is the problem:

When [email protected] sends a message to [email protected] sometimes...only
sometimes...the message does not go through, there is no bounce back,
nothig, just a "lost" email.

This doesn't happen all the time, or just to a specific group of
computers. This is a random occurance, and because of its random
nature our ISP is not able to help us out because they can not
re-create the problem.

If anybody has experienced similar problems, or could point me in the
right direction of things that could be going wrong I would be more
than grateful.

Thanks,
Andy
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

If anybody has experienced similar problems, or could point me in the
right direction of things that could be going wrong I would be more
than grateful.
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I've hear of similar issues and every time, it was up to the
administratorof the SMTP to fix the problem (your ISP in this case).

We've had a lot of SMTP issues here, up until the admin decided to
simply turn the SMTP off and ask us to exclusively use our Excahnge
server (which, of course, is not an option for our alternate POP or IMAP
e-mail accounts. To workaround that I decided to use PostFix. It works
rather well for me. It's not perfect, but it's an option.
You can find out more about that here:
http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=33
Postfix comes pre-installed on your Mac (at least in 10.3 and 10.4) and
allows you to turn your own Mac into your personal SMTP server.

Corentin
 
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Daiya Mitchell

I've hear of similar issues and every time, it was up to the
administratorof the SMTP to fix the problem (your ISP in this case).

We've had a lot of SMTP issues here, up until the admin decided to
simply turn the SMTP off and ask us to exclusively use our Excahnge
server (which, of course, is not an option for our alternate POP or IMAP
e-mail accounts. To workaround that I decided to use PostFix. It works
rather well for me. It's not perfect, but it's an option.
You can find out more about that here:
http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=33
Postfix comes pre-installed on your Mac (at least in 10.3 and 10.4) and
allows you to turn your own Mac into your personal SMTP server.
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I haven't checked into this with my IT dept, but every time I send mail
through postfix:

--it bcc's to my gmail account fine, and I figure it arrived
--recipients at my university never receive it

Obviously my university server is swallowing these messages for some
reason--I haven't put any effort into fixing this, but is it possible
something similar is happening to the OP?
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Daiya Mitchell said:
Obviously my university server is swallowing these messages for some
reason--I haven't put any effort into fixing this, but is it possible
something similar is happening to the OP?
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Some servers only accept mail from well known servers. Others will check
out whether the e-mail is coming from a qualified domain named-machine
and will reject it if it's not.
Postfix is not the perfect solution, but it can help in lot of cases.



Corentin
 
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