From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:15:37 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dns failure In-Reply-To: <20070503124710.166440@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5710363c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ok, to get as much debug as you can, first try to send some mail. once that has failed, do: tail /sys/log/runq you should get somthing like this: May 3 10:46:10 steve/C.225661: execing '/mail/lib/remotemail' 'smtp' 'steve' 'net!$smtp' 'theirname@theirdomain.com' so, cut and pasteing from that you can run remotemail under rc-x like this: rc -x '/mail/lib/remotemail' 'smtp' 'steve' 'net!$smtp' 'theirname@theirdomain.com' which will give you some more debug, the last line of which is: exec /bin/upas/smtp -i -a -h mydomain.com 'net!$smtp' my-username-on-my-mail-relay theirname@theirdomain.com interrupt this, and you can now re-run smtp, adding a -d option to see the smtp debug: /bin/upas/smtp -d -i -a -h mydomain.com 'net!$smtp' my-username-on-my-mail-relay theirname@theirdomain.com expanding /net!$smtp sending /net/dns 'my.mail.relay.com mx' dns: dns: resource does not exist mxdial trying /net/net!mymailrelay.mydomain.com!smtp 220 my.mail.relay.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.1830 ready at Thu, 3 May 2007 14:10:40 +0100 EHLO myhost.mydomain.com 250-mymailrelay.mydomain.com Hello [192.168.253.1] 250-TURN 250-SIZE ...etc somwhere here you should be able see where your problem is occuring. -Steve