Email problem

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd at milibyte.co.uk
Fri Apr 4 08:46:35 UTC 2008


On Friday 04 April 2008, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:33:48PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote:
> > Hi..
> >
> > I am having trouble in my email server I spend many hours but i
> > cant fix it, hopeu can help me guys
> > One of the account i created cant send email in any email address
> > like gmail.com I created it the same settings
> > with my other account but it doesnt work...is ther a problem on my
> > sever on this?
>
> Of course there's a problem on your server - otherwise it'd be
> working. However, if you want help from us, you have to provide us
> with details:
>
>     1. what mail software are you using
>     2. what is your configuration file like.
>     3. what your logs are saying.

That's assuming that Thunderbird is sending outgoing mail through a 
local MTA and not through the OPs ISP smarthost, perhaps the clue to 
the problem lies in his Thunderbird config files. A _full_ set of 
headers from a bounced message might help.

-- 
Mike Clarke


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