Topic: email stopped working

[gustav]

My email suddenly stopped working 3 days ago.  I have sent myself many test messages, and none of them have arrived.  All of the other users have noticed that they also have not received any email.  What can I do, what can I check....please help.

[Paul Miller]

Hi Gustav,

Could you provide a bit more info on what you are seeing and what you have tried?

If you use telnet you could start by looking at /var/log/maillog and try to find where the pattern of messages changes and it stopped working. The logs are rolled over to keep the system clean so I search using the * as seen in grep below.

cd /var/log
grep "Mar  4" maillog*|less

gustav wrote:
>
> My email suddenly stopped working 3 days ago.  I have sent
> myself many test messages, and none of them have arrived.

Have you made any changes to DNS?  
> All of the other users have noticed that they also have not
> received any email.  What can I do, what can I
> check....please help.