Topic: email woes

[maccamob]

All
where should i look to see if i have a back log of incoming emails waitng to be delivered locally?
its either that or im having trouble with my MX record ;0(
ive edited the mx record to point at my IP and forwarded port 25 from my firewall to me SME box, i can send and recieve locally and can send outbound mails.
could it be anything else apart from the MX record?

kind regards
maccamob

[Nathan Fowler]

MX records should point to FQDN not IP addresses, so make sure that isn't an issue.  You can check to see if your mail is backed up by:

du -h /var/qmail/queue/local |more
or
du -h /var/qmail/queue/mess|more

Assuming everyone is happy and mail is being delivered correctly you should see only 4.0K per folder, any folder over that has contents and should be investigated.  I would check your MX record, most smtp daemons will not deliver to an MX record pointing to an IP address.

Hope this helped,
Nathan