Dear All
Ahmedsa was previously given advice to remove the second MX record in this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,51682.0/nowap.html(which apparently pointed at a misconfigured server).
It looks like it has NOT been fixed, but it also looks like there is a wrong configuration generally
ie using mserver.altawi.com & altawi.com.sa pointing at different IPs (????)
See
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?ismobile=0#which shows
mx:altawi.com.sa
0 mserver.altawi.com.sa 78.93.244.61
1 altawi.com.sa 212.93.222.10
I think that the changes needed here are to rename the SME server main domain to
altawi.com.sa (instead of mserver.altawi.com.sa)
& to change external MX records to have either no entries (which is acceptable to SME server requirements), or only one entry which shows
mx:altawi.com.sa
0 altawi.com.sa 78.93.244.61
(I used 78.93.244.61 as that is what ahmedsa said the server IP is in the other thread).
Do others agree ?
It seems at the moment that 78.93.244.61 is not resolving (times out with 110 error), so there is also something wrong with DNS, or the physical connection, I am not sure which or what ???
Also
http://212.93.222.10 gives an error at
http://212.93.222.10/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgialtawi.com.sa does resolve to a website
mserver.altawi.com.sa does NOT resolve & times out, so I think that server is down or connecting intermittently, so that could explain intermiitent mail problems
Using network-tools.com to look up altawi.com.sa I get
212.93.222.10 is from Saudi Arabia (SA) in region Middle East
Input: altawi.com.sa
canonical name: altawi.com.sa
Registered Domain: altawi.com.sa
TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 212.93.222.10 [altawi.com.sa]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 1 0 0 206.123.64.217 -
2 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
3 Timed out Timed out 124 4.69.201.182 ae-1-11.bear1.paris10.level3.net
4 123 124 125 4.69.201.182 ae-1-11.bear1.paris10.level3.net
5 172 172 172 213.242.120.154 saudi-telec.bear1.paris10.level3.net
6 189 189 189 84.235.94.129 84-235-94-129.saudi.net.sa
7 184 184 184 84.235.108.21 84-235-108-21.saudi.net.sa
8 184 184 185 212.93.211.2 -
9 184 184 184 212.93.222.130 -
10 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
11 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
12 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
13 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
14 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
15 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
16 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
17 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
18 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
19 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
20 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
21 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
22 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
23 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
Trace aborted.
Retrieving DNS records for altawi.com.sa...
DNS servers
ns2.awalnet.net.sa
webx1.awalnet.com
Answer records
altawi.com.sa MX
preference: 1
exchange: altawi.com.sa
14400s
altawi.com.sa MX
preference: 0
exchange: mserver.altawi.com.sa
14400s
altawi.com.sa SOA
server: webx1.awalnet.com
email: aoulah@stcas.com.sa
serial: 2015073002
refresh: 86400
retry: 7200
expire: 3600000
minimum ttl: 86400
86400s
altawi.com.sa NS ns2.awalnet.net.sa 86400s
altawi.com.sa NS webx1.awalnet.com 86400s
altawi.com.sa A 212.93.222.10 14400s
Authority records
Additional records
altawi.com.sa A 212.93.222.10 14400s
mserver.altawi.com.sa A 78.93.244.61 14400s
Whois query for altawi.com.sa...
Results returned from whois.nic.net.sa:
% SaudiNIC Whois server.
% Rights restricted by copyright.
%
http://nic.sa/en/view/whois-cmd-copyrightDomain Name: altawi.com.sa
Registrant:
Al-Tawi for Ready Mix Concrete & Cement Products شركة آل طاوي للاجزاء الخرسانية والمنتجات الاسمنتية
Address: لا يوجد
لا يوجد Jeddah جدة
Saudi Arabia المملكة العربية السعودية
..... and to look up mserver.altawi.com.sa
78.93.244.61 is from Saudi Arabia (SA) in region Middle East
Input: mserver.altawi.com.sa
canonical name: mserver.altawi.com.sa
Registered Domain: altawi.com.sa
TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 78.93.244.61 [mserver.altawi.com.sa]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 1 0 0 206.123.64.221 -
2 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
3 124 124 123 4.69.201.182 ae-1-11.bear1.paris10.level3.net
4 123 124 124 4.69.201.182 ae-1-11.bear1.paris10.level3.net
5 172 172 172 213.242.120.154 saudi-telec.bear1.paris10.level3.net
6 189 189 189 84.235.94.129 84-235-94-129.saudi.net.sa
7 184 184 184 84.235.108.21 84-235-108-21.saudi.net.sa
8 184 184 184 212.93.211.2 -
9 190 190 189 212.93.209.6 -
10 247 247 248 78.93.244.61 mserver.altawi.com.sa
Trace complete
Retrieving DNS records for mserver.altawi.com.sa...
DNS servers
webx1.awalnet.com
ns2.awalnet.net.sa
Answer records
mserver.altawi.com.sa A 78.93.244.61 14400s
Authority records
altawi.com.sa NS ns2.awalnet.net.sa 86400s
altawi.com.sa NS webx1.awalnet.com 86400s
Additional records
ns2.awalnet.net.sa A 212.93.192.5 600s
webx1.awalnet.com A 212.93.222.10 600s
Whois query for altawi.com.sa...
Results returned from whois.nic.net.sa:
% SaudiNIC Whois server.
% Rights restricted by copyright.
%
http://nic.sa/en/view/whois-cmd-copyrightDomain Name: altawi.com.sa
Registrant:
Al-Tawi for Ready Mix Concrete & Cement Products شركة آل طاوي للاجزاء الخرسانية والمنتجات الاسمنتية
Address: لا يوجد
لا يوجد Jeddah جدة
Saudi Arabia المملكة العربية السعودية
.... and more
SMTP tests
smtp:78.93.244.61
Unable to connect after 15 seconds.
Test Result
SMTP Connect Failed To Connect More Info
Session Transcript:
Connecting to 78.93.244.61
9/26/2015 9:03:54 PM Connection attempt #1 - Unable to connect after 15 seconds. [15.05 sec]
9/26/2015 9:04:14 PM Connection attempt #2 - Unable to connect after 15 seconds. [15.00 sec]
PWS3v2 35070ms
smtp:212.93.222.10
220-webx1.awalnet.com ESMTP Exim 4.85 #2 Sun, 27 Sep 2015 05:06:55 +0300
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
Test Result
SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch OK - 212.93.222.10 resolves to nsw1.awalnet.com
SMTP Valid Hostname OK - Reverse DNS is a valid Hostname
SMTP Banner Check OK - Reverse DNS matches SMTP Banner
SMTP TLS OK - Supports TLS.
SMTP Connection Time 1.250 seconds - Good on Connection time
SMTP Open Relay OK - Not an open relay.
SMTP Transaction Time 3.985 seconds - Good on Transaction Time
Session Transcript:
Connecting to 212.93.222.10
220-webx1.awalnet.com ESMTP Exim 4.85 #2 Sun, 27 Sep 2015 05:06:55 +0300
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail. [1000 ms]
EHLO PWS3.mxtoolbox.com
250-webx1.awalnet.com Hello pws3.mxtoolbox.com [64.20.227.134]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP [797 ms]
MAIL FROM:<supertool@mxtoolbox.com>
250 OK [797 ms]
RCPT TO:<test@example.com>
550-Please turn on SMTP Authentication in your mail client. pws3.mxtoolbox.com
550-[64.20.227.134]:58284 is not permitted to relay through this server without
550 authentication. [938 ms]
PWS3v2 9032ms
..... also,
neither domain name/IP is blacklisted so OK there.