email problems

email problems

[Martin Courcelles]

Interresting problems with email under Debian.  
I had my system working perfectly with email and Pine both sending and
receiving over concentric.net.  
I recently movde from the states to Canada and was able to keep the same
provider, so you would think the connection would stay the same.  
Well, I can send messages fine, but I seem to be having problem receiving
them.  Here's the error
fetchmail: 1 message at martinfc@smtp.concentric.net
reading message 1 (697 bytes fetchmail: smtp connect to (null) failed
fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from smtp.concentric.net

Now what could have changed?  I deleted sendmail and reinstalled it.  I
then uninstaled it and installed smail, still same error.  The wierd thing
is that I didn't have to change anything in windows 95 except the phone
number of course.  Any ideas?  I want to use pine again.  Mind you eudora
for windows 95 is pretty nice.  
Regards,
Martin Courcelles

Re: email problems

[Hans Zoebelein]

Hmmm, it seems that there are better places to post this thread than
blinux-list. What about comp.os.linux.networking?

Enjoy!
Hans  

Re: Email problems

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Um, what makes it hard is that you haven't told us your mailer or how
you have it configured. I checked your message headers and the mailer
doesn't appear there either. Strange...

I'm using Mutt. My email appears in:

/var/spool/mail/$USER

My ISP is a POP3 server and Mutt picks up mail fine; I told it the
pop_user and pop_host. My problem is the opposite of yours: I can't send
out anything. The ISP tells me I should send through smtp.comcast.net
but I can't find where to insert that name. Strange because I had no
problem on Red Hat 8.

Lee

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:36:27PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Please don't reply to this message on the list, as for some reason I won't 
> receive it.
> 
> I have just switched my server computer where my mail is hosted and where 
> all my other servers are running from Slackware to Red Hat 9.  I love Red 
> Hat, but I am having a couple of problems.
> 
> Firstly, I can send mail from my local mailbox, but I can't receive mail.  
> I have sent message after message from a mailbox that is hosted remotely 
> in an attempt to test whether or not I am receiving mail, and every one of 
> them have gotten lost somewhere in cyberspace.  Also, I get the message 
> every now and then that says "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." and the 
> message seems to display at times when I probably should have received an 
> email message.  Also, when I try to test to be sure I don't have an open 
> relay by telnetting to relay-test.mail-abuse.org, I get a connection error 
> that says
> 
> /proj/maps/bin/in.relaytest: socket failed [Bad file descriptor]
> 
> I don't know if all of these things are related, but as you can see, it 
> looks like a very serious problem.  If anyone knows how to fix this 
> problem, please respond to this email offlist at prince77@myrealbox.com as 
> I am able to receive mail at that address with no problems.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
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Email problems

[Lorenzo Prince]

Please don't reply to this message on the list, as for some reason I won't 
receive it.

I have just switched my server computer where my mail is hosted and where 
all my other servers are running from Slackware to Red Hat 9.  I love Red 
Hat, but I am having a couple of problems.

Firstly, I can send mail from my local mailbox, but I can't receive mail.  
I have sent message after message from a mailbox that is hosted remotely 
in an attempt to test whether or not I am receiving mail, and every one of 
them have gotten lost somewhere in cyberspace.  Also, I get the message 
every now and then that says "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." and the 
message seems to display at times when I probably should have received an 
email message.  Also, when I try to test to be sure I don't have an open 
relay by telnetting to relay-test.mail-abuse.org, I get a connection error 
that says

/proj/maps/bin/in.relaytest: socket failed [Bad file descriptor]

I don't know if all of these things are related, but as you can see, it 
looks like a very serious problem.  If anyone knows how to fix this 
problem, please respond to this email offlist at prince77@myrealbox.com as 
I am able to receive mail at that address with no problems.

Thanks for the help

Lorenzo