Topic: Why does my e-mail bounce?

[Jason Judge]

I'm having terrible troubles with e-mail.

I have set up E-smith to pick up mail from my ISP by POP3 and deliver by SMTP. The ISP sits behind an ISDN LAN-modem, so to all intents and purposes the ISP looks like it is on my local network.

My local domain is 'acad'. The e-mail addresses are listed in the configuration review screens as being username@acad. BUT sending e-mail to this address gets bounced. Instead I must send e-mail to username@mail.acad. This seems strange, so I know something is not set up quite right.

When I send mail to my pop3 box and e-smith tries to pick it up, e-smith bouces it back to the sender saying it cannot deliver mail to username@acad.acad - even more strange. The original e-mail gets returned to the sender.

I have configured e-smith to send mail for unknown recipients to the administrator (would be nice if I could choose a different user - but that's another issue). Obviously that is not working (even if it were, how do I pick up mail from postmaster - there is no option to set or change the password. Is postmaster a real account?).

So - does any of this look familiar? If so, what could I be doind wrong? Where are the logs that tell me what is going wrong?

Thanks,

Jason

[Alejandro]

postmaster is a pseudonym for admin in e-smith standard config

[Jason Judge]

I've begun to understand what is happening. I am using multi-drop from a virgin.net mailbox.

The messages picked up are sent to 'me@virgin.net' - but E-smith does not know of this user, so it sends the message back to Postmaster. BUT it sends to Postmaster@virgin.net, not Postmaster@mydomain.

I'm going to need to do some more investigating to try and monitor what is happening.

JJ