"Set up right" is subjective. There are many ways to set up mail.
Do the MX records for your domains point to your server, or to your
ISP's?
If they point to your server, then the world should be dropping mail
off at your port 25 (assuming you had a daemon listening there), and it
is then entirely yours to work with. Unless your server has dedicated
connectivity, this is unlikely.
If you dialup or some other sort of dynamic/intermittent connectivity,
it is more likely the MX records point at your ISP's server. They may
be delivering it to a mailbox for you to retrieve by POP3, they may be
batching it up and waiting for you to issue an ETRN, or a number of
other scenarios. Inside of just disussing wether its 'right' or not,
I'd find out exactly how it is set up, and how their setup is supposed
to work.
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> Hey:
>
> I wonder if anyone here can help me with something ...
>
> I have two domains hosted with my ISP, which according to them are
> correctly set up to deliver mail via SMTP. However, mail addressed to
> users at these domains neither arrives nor bounces.
>
> For the first week it did bounce, and the headers showed that it never
> got any further than my ISP's mail servers [where it was looping], but
> for the past few days it's just been disappearing. There are no
> indications in /var/log/exim/exim_*log that any of this mail has ever
> reached my mail server.
>
> I have the domains listed in local_domains, and mail to my standard user
> account arrives via SMTP without any problems.
>
> I've been trying to sort this out with my ISP for nearly a fortnight
> now, and we've reached an impasse where they insist that everything's
> set up correctly at their end, and I insist that mail is nevertheless
> not arriving at my machine.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong at my end? Are there
> situations in which Exim just drops mail without logging anything?
>
> -[z].
>
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