Problems sending mail after MailScanner install

[Martin Hepworth]

Olivier

check the maillog (or whatever log file for the MTA you use)
try a test message by hand from the machine (telnet
"mailserver.domain.com25" etc)
talk to the admins at the remote end to see if that can spot anything in
their logs

Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 18 August 2010 16:59, Mark L. Wise <mark at alpha2.com> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I recently installed MailScanner on a server that I am responsible for to
> help reduce virus infections.
>
> Things seemed to be working great, but then I started getting calls that
> outbound mail was not being delivered just to a select group of e-mail
> addresses.  Since these select group of e-mail addresses represented their
> significant customers, I turned MailScanner off.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Is there a way to exclude certain e-mail domains from outbound e-mail
> checks?
> 2) How would I diagnose why the mail was not being delivered?  (I think my
> maillog files show them leaving my server... could be that something on the
> scanned files shows up as problems to the incoming servers at the domains?
> 3) Any thoughts on why only certain domains would not get mail delivered?
>
> Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
> Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
> MailScanner version 4.79.11
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Mark L. Wise
>
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