Boxav8r
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: Only receiving SOME email... |
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Just installed Apache 2.0 last week, and needed a good mail server. PHPXmail seemed like a good choice.
Installed it, and all seemed ok using localhost. Then turned it on using my domain name.
The first problem - unable to send was solved when I talked to comcast and found port 25 is shut down unless I use their smtp server with my account. The second part of that was I had inadvertantly set my port blocking to prevent sending anything out on port 25 and failed to except phpxmail.
The second problem remains unsolved... I am only getting SOME email. (Port 110 is open, AND port blocking doesn't apply here) Several friends have called and said their messages to me bounced. So I went on to my yahoo account, sent several test emails - and I received about 20% while about 80% bounced with this error... (sanitized the domain name because I run a small server and don't need extra traffic ) This error is returned almost immediately.
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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<nospam@mydomain.net>:
24.61.XXX.XXX does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 Mailbox unavailable <nospam@mydomain.net>
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There's NOTHING worse than an intermittent problem, and I can't find ANY common thread in the failures. For example, I sent one email from yahoo to my wife, me, and two other accounts in phpxmail. That email got through to two accounts, and failed on two. Later, things appeared to be working ok - and I sent another test - one to my wife and one to me. The one to her failed and the one to me disappeared into the ether... but the "bounce" only listed her address as failed. Other times, emails get right through to these accounts from my yahoo email account. OUCH!!!
Any ideas would be welcomed!
Thanks,
Pete
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