mail getting lost question

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:30:44PM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Hi.  I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting the problem and am 
> hoping someone can give some suggestions.
> 
> It appears that when sending mail to some places using my FC3 box that 
> mail gets lost.  I do not receive any bounced message nor does the mail 
> get received.  For my MUA I use mutt with fetchmail grabbing mail from 
> my hosting service.  I was using exim as my mta with smarthost setup for 
> outgoing mail which authenticated to my hosting service.  I tried 
> sending a message to a mailing list on smartgroups and did not see it 
> posted.  I was receiving mail just fine from the list and did confirm I 
> was subscribed under the correct email address.  I then went to my 
> Windows box using Outlook Express and sent a message to the smartgroups 
> list and it went through.  The Outlook outgoing mail is set up to use my 
> hosting service as it's smtp authenticator as well. 

Hmm...Maybe you aren't properly authenticating to your provider using the Linux MUA? Do they use authenticated SMTP? Can you send mail to other domains? aHave you checked with the provider to 
make sure no mail is being denied on their end?
>
 Basically the 
> difference is that it did not go through my Linux MTA.
> 
> I thought for some reason the problem may have been exim so I switched 
> it to using postfix.  Configured it to authenticate outgoing mail to my 
> hosting service and still get the same results.  So far I've mainly 
> noticed this with the smartgroups.com domain but a few others have told 
> me they have not received mail from me when I know I sent out messages.
> 
> The logs of exim or postfix show the message went out successfully.  
> Either that or I am not sure of what to look for exactly.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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