topic Re: about mail server in Operating System - Linux

about mail server

Jessica Chou — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:30:06 GMT

please help!
At what kind of situation that some certain mail servers can not receive mails from my mail server?
When I sent mails out, no matter if I sent it through a client-side email software(SMTP) or directly telnet to my email server to sent it with "sendmail", I couldn't get it.
First, I got warning message as:
quote:
The original message was received at Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:18:26 +0800
from xxx.yyy.com.tw [1.1.1.1]

----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----

----- Transcript of session follows -----
,... Deferred: Connection reset by mx.pchome.com.tw.
... Deferred: Connection timed out with ethome.com.tw.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 3 days old

unquote********************

after few more warning emails being sent to me, I got the "Returned mail: Cannot send message within 3 days" which contained:

The original message was received at Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:18:26 +0800
from xxx.yyy.com.tw [1.1.1.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... Deferred: Connection reset by mx.pchome.com.tw.
... Deferred: Connection timed out with ethome.com.tw.
Message could not be delivered for 3 days
Message will be deleted from queue

unquote
************

But I can receive mails from "pchome" or "ethome".

Any configuration I need to check?
Thank you very much for your help.

Re: about mail server

Tim Malnati — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:00:31 GMT

My best suggestion is that you install and use the Webmin package. It's a web based administration utility that handles sendmail and many other system functions. It usually has enough dignostics to determine how things are currently configured and provides most of the necessary fill-in boxes to make it run correctly. Many unix flavors are supported but Linux is particularly well supported. I'm not a sendamil expert, but webmin has come to my rescue to perform the configurations that are usually needed.

Re: about mail server

Jessica Chou — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 03:19:57 GMT

thanks for your reply.
so, is webmin free download?
where can i get it?

Re: about mail server

Jeffrey S. Sims — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 20:49:51 GMT

What is the .tw at the end of the name?

Re: about mail server

Michael Peters — Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:41:39 GMT

Webmin can be found at http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

The .tw is the country code Top Level Domain for Taiwan.