Topic: Email Delivery Problem

[Stephen Sloan]

I'm having a problem with email addressed to a particular domain, opechee.com. Whenever a user sends an email to a valid user at that domain, it gets stuck in the queue. Here is a log entry:

@400000003f71d50a0541f85c starting delivery 8515: msg 1998467 to remote validuser@opechee.com
@400000003f71d50a05420be4 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
@400000003f71d50f0ba4c814 delivery 8515: deferral: Connected_to_216.195.183.65_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/

When I ping opechee.com, DNS reports the address as 209.41.170.70. If I send an email to validuser@209.41.170.70 it goes through. Why is qmail seeing the address as 216.195.183.65? How can I get qmail to use the correct address?

[jeroen]

Seems like the mx records aren't setup properly for that domain. In my opinion they must have more problems receiving mail.

/jeroen

[Peter]

The address qmail is using is the correct one supplied via  DNS, i.e. the MX record in the domain

> set type=MX
> opechee.com

Non-authoritative answer:
opechee.com     MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.opechee.com

opechee.com     nameserver = ns2.eswish.net
opechee.com     nameserver = ns1.eswish.net
mail.opechee.com        internet address = 216.195.183.65
ns1.eswish.net  internet address = 209.41.170.70
ns2.eswish.net  internet address = 209.41.170.71
>

If you wan to get this information use the nslookup command in Windows or Unix and  'set type=MX' the enter the domain you are looking for.

I agree with the second post they are proably having a few problems.

Peter.