Hi
Nobody read the mailboxes, and I do not verify senders. It only happens
when web based mailers are used. I can quite happily use any other mail
client to send the mail out to the addresses, from remote networks, but
when it comes to web based ones i.e yahoo/hotmail haven't tried
netscape, then we get failure
Iqbal
Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Iqbal wrote:
>
> > group=exim
> > mode=0600 (well it was until the problem arose)
> >
> > Now when anyone deleivered mail onto our machine to the local users, all
> > was fine, the permission on the mailbox was 0600 owned by the user, and
> > the group was exim, where everyuser was amemeber of the group exim.
>
> But since the mode was 0600, the group could not be relevant, unless you
> need it to create the mailbox in a directory that is writeable by the
> group.
>
> > However when mail was sent from Hotmail/yahoo (other I havent checked)
> > the mail failed, no errors in the reject_log none anywhere, its as if
> > the mail bypasses the primary server and then went straight to the
> > secondary. But mail sent from anywhere else in the world, from any
> > account, worked fine straight into the mailbox.
>
> Are you running with any kind of mail blocking? Have you got
> verify_sender turned on? Maybe there was a temporary failure to verify,
> though that should be logged in the reject log.
>
> > So to fix this (didn't know it was a fix at the time) I changed the
> > permission on the mailbox to 0644. This worked fine, people sending from
> > other isp's were fine everyone received mail, but when hotmail/yahoo got
> > in on the act, the first mail was delivered, but the second failed. The
> > reason for this was that the permissions had changed back. I presume
> > this had soimething to do with the mode setting above. But they only
> > change when hotmail gets in on the act.
>
> I cannot believe that the sender address or host has anything to do with
> this. Did you or anybody else read the mailbox between deliveries? What
> MUA was used. Some MUAs delete mailboxes when they are empty. Exim would
> then create a new one with the mode set as specified.
>
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> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
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