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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Marina Brown <marina@surferz.net>
Subject: [9fans] Still picking at a wierd mail issue under Qemu...
Date: Wed,  8 Mar 2006 05:54:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308115424.4BACD1188D@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440E8FE8.10303@surferz.net>

yes: upas tries to look up the mx record.
	dnslookup smtp.east.cox.net
fails. there is a problem with their setup.

however, upas/smtp should fall back to the a record.
i wonder why that is not happening.

the function you're interested in is in upas/smtp/mxdial.c

- erik

Marina Brown <marina@surferz.net> writes

|
| Here is the log of the mail failure and of a successfull telnet
| to the smtp host.
|
| term% cat E*
| smtp: dns: dns failure (net!smtp.east.cox.net)
| term% telnet net!smtp.east.cox.net!25
| connected to net!smtp.east.cox.net!25 on /net/tcp/0
| 220 eastrmmtao06.cox.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02
| 201-2131-123-102-20050715) ready Wed, 8 Mar 2006 02:58:33 -0500
|
|
| Any ideas ?
|
| I read and post news (NNTP) using Acme news, but acme mail still will
| not work.
|
| ---- Marina Brown


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-08  8:03 Marina Brown
2006-03-08 11:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-03-08 11:59   ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-08 14:55 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-08 18:55 marina
2006-03-08 19:04 ` Russ Cox

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