I've been diligently fighting this issue for the past few days and don't
appear to be any closer to solving what the problem is and wanted to see if
anyone would be kind enough to lend me a bit of assistance.
The situation is as follows
A random legitimate sender attempts to send e-mail to me at this address.
The e-mail doesn't appear at all and isn't immediately rejected either. I
watch my exim mainlog and don't see anything of that message ever attempt to
be delivered.
At this point, in attempt to troubleshoot this problem, I've removed "all"
spam filtering I have server side, had another look at my DNS records
(finding I didn't have a PTR record of any type made sure to make one up)
revamped my DNS zone while carefully following examples. Some people's
messages come through fine, but there's probably a dozen or so legit domains
that don't even attempt to connect to my server to deliver the message. All
to no end.
I tried this myself from an aim.com mail account I'd set up and get the
following message back:
###### RETURNED ERROR MESSAGE BELOW ######
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<tcrass ## pleiadesdesign.com>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 <tcrass ## pleiadesdesign.com>... pleiadesdesign.com: Name server
timeout
Message could not be delivered for 2 hours
Message will be deleted from queue
Final-Recipient: RFC822; tcrass ## pleiadesdesign.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:01:41 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from covenfreyja ## aim.com
by imo-m19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id u.d45.25ded1a5 (57878)
for <tcrass ## pleiadesdesign.com>; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:56:17 -0400
(EDT)
Return-Path: <covenfreyja ## aim.com>
Received: from webmail-nc17 (webmail-nc17.sim.aol.com [207.200.67.38]) by
air-ia03.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINIA34-e21647ed151f1a2;
Fri, 28
Mar 2008 11:56:15 -0400
To: tcrass ## pleiadesdesign.com
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:56:15 -0400
X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI
X-AOL-IP: LEGITIP
X-MB-Message-Type: User
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: covenfreyja ## aim.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--------MB_8CA5F03635CD218_1384_143F_webmail-nc17.sysops.aol.com"
X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 35304-STANDARD
Received: from LEGITIP by webmail-nc17.sysops.aol.com (207.200.67.38) with
HTTP (WebMailUI); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:56:14 -0400
Message-Id: <8CA5F036283DB09-1384-A6A@???>
X-Spam-Flag: NO
###### END ######
I have checked my name servers (ns1/ns2 at the respective domain) and my MX
records, PTR records and everything yet message seem to still be failing.
Did I do something wrong with my DNS or Exim config that anyone can think of
that would cause such a mess?
Just in case this is what I have for my zone file:
###### ZONE FILE ######
$TTL 43200
@ IN SOA ns1.pleiadesdesign.com.
pleiades.pleiadesdesign.com. (
2008032706; serial
1H ; refresh
10 ; retry
14D ; expire
12H ; default_ttl
)
@ IN NS ns1.pleiadesdesign.com.
@ IN NS ns2.pleiadesdesign.com.
@ IN NS lyra.pleiadesdesign.com.
pleiadesdesign.com. IN MX 10 mail.pleiadesdesign.com.
pleiadesdesign.com. IN A 69.30.204.75
ns1 IN A 69.30.204.75
ns2 IN A 69.30.204.75
lyra IN A 69.30.204.75
mail IN A 69.30.204.75
www IN CNAME pleiadesdesign.com.
ftp IN CNAME pleiadesdesign.com.
;pleiadesdesign.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ~all"
;mail IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
###### END ######
Any insight or thoughts anyone has on this would be greatly appreciated.
~Torry
