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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Steve <st...@browsermedia.com> on 2003/03/20 19:55:38 UTC
James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
I don't know if this has already been posted, but I know there are frequent questions about James not relaying in certain cases, so I thought I would share a nice little issue I just ran into...
I have Jame installed on a computer at my office. I have been sending and receiving email just fine with my installation. Recently, I tried to send an email from my home office. For some reason, none of my emails were being received by the recipients regardless of whether they were local accounts to James or not. No messages were returning to me to indicate an error.
I looked into the repositories, and what I found was that all the email being sent FROM my home account were ending up in the deadletter box and marked as spam. As suggested, I checked the http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl site. Both my client IP address and James' IP address were returned as "not in the database of spammers".
Finally, I found on the mail-abuse site a link to http://mail-abuse.org/dul/. Right at the top of the page was mention that Comcast addresses are listed in the dul databast (verified when I checked my ip address). Seems Comcast (and other IP's) require you to use their smtp servers.
The solution was to either a) change my client settings to use the Comcast SMTP server, or b) turn off the SPAM mailet in James.
Like I say, maybe others were already aware of this, but I just wanted to add it to the list of things to check if you have difficulties.
Steve
Re: James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
Posted by Steve <st...@browsermedia.com>.
What I thought was unique about this situation is it was JAMES who
was rejecting the email - not some faceless provider. Also, it was
my mail CLIENT which was in a sense blacklisted, not my server.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Caum" <st...@caumfamily.com>
To: "James Users List" <ja...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
> Steve
>
> Your message is very similar to the one I posted earlier in the week. I
> think that some of mail providers (such as hotmail, etc) have begun to
> reject mail from mail servers that are running on dynamic IP's. I have
> searched the database at mail-abuse.org, and my IP doesn't seem to be
> listed. But, I know of others who are having problems.
>
> Apparently the solution to this particular problem is to have James
forward
> all SMTP via your ISP's mail server.
>
> Another Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <st...@browsermedia.com>
> To: "james-user" <ja...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:55 PM
> Subject: James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
>
>
> I don't know if this has already been posted, but I know there are
frequent
> questions about James not relaying in certain cases, so I thought I would
> share a nice little issue I just ran into...
>
> I have Jame installed on a computer at my office. I have been sending and
> receiving email just fine with my installation. Recently, I tried to send
an
> email from my home office. For some reason, none of my emails were being
> received by the recipients regardless of whether they were local accounts
to
> James or not. No messages were returning to me to indicate an error.
>
> I looked into the repositories, and what I found was that all the email
> being sent FROM my home account were ending up in the deadletter box and
> marked as spam. As suggested, I checked the http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl
> site. Both my client IP address and James' IP address were returned as
"not
> in the database of spammers".
>
> Finally, I found on the mail-abuse site a link to
> http://mail-abuse.org/dul/. Right at the top of the page was mention that
> Comcast addresses are listed in the dul databast (verified when I checked
my
> ip address). Seems Comcast (and other IP's) require you to use their smtp
> servers.
>
> The solution was to either a) change my client settings to use the Comcast
> SMTP server, or b) turn off the SPAM mailet in James.
>
> Like I say, maybe others were already aware of this, but I just wanted to
> add it to the list of things to check if you have difficulties.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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Re: James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
Posted by Steve Caum <st...@caumfamily.com>.
Steve
Your message is very similar to the one I posted earlier in the week. I
think that some of mail providers (such as hotmail, etc) have begun to
reject mail from mail servers that are running on dynamic IP's. I have
searched the database at mail-abuse.org, and my IP doesn't seem to be
listed. But, I know of others who are having problems.
Apparently the solution to this particular problem is to have James forward
all SMTP via your ISP's mail server.
Another Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <st...@browsermedia.com>
To: "james-user" <ja...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:55 PM
Subject: James will not relay email sent from through my IP (Comcast)
I don't know if this has already been posted, but I know there are frequent
questions about James not relaying in certain cases, so I thought I would
share a nice little issue I just ran into...
I have Jame installed on a computer at my office. I have been sending and
receiving email just fine with my installation. Recently, I tried to send an
email from my home office. For some reason, none of my emails were being
received by the recipients regardless of whether they were local accounts to
James or not. No messages were returning to me to indicate an error.
I looked into the repositories, and what I found was that all the email
being sent FROM my home account were ending up in the deadletter box and
marked as spam. As suggested, I checked the http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl
site. Both my client IP address and James' IP address were returned as "not
in the database of spammers".
Finally, I found on the mail-abuse site a link to
http://mail-abuse.org/dul/. Right at the top of the page was mention that
Comcast addresses are listed in the dul databast (verified when I checked my
ip address). Seems Comcast (and other IP's) require you to use their smtp
servers.
The solution was to either a) change my client settings to use the Comcast
SMTP server, or b) turn off the SPAM mailet in James.
Like I say, maybe others were already aware of this, but I just wanted to
add it to the list of things to check if you have difficulties.
Steve
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