mail not sending

[asmithjr]

ok I feel like a dummy but I cannot find what went wrong. All was fine until today.
All to Bellsouth, My server was down for a few hours today, think they lost me?


I have emails in queue that look like this when I try to send them:

Message 1GJDhu-0003rR-Rx is not frozen
delivering 1GJDhu-0003rR-Rx
Connecting to mx01.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.33]:25 ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 ibm48aec.bellsouth.net ESMTP server ready Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:14:03 -0400
  SMTP>> EHLO host.ptsaemail.com
  SMTP<< 250-ibm48aec.bellsouth.net
         250-HELP
         250-PIPELINING
         250-DSN
         250-8BITMIME
         250 SIZE 26214400
  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1987
  SMTP>> RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
  SMTP>> DATA
  SMTP<< 450 Unable to find host.ptsaemail.com
  SMTP<< 503 Bad sequence of commands (specify MAIL first)
  SMTP<< 503 No sender specified
LOG: MAIN
  SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1987: host mx01.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.33]: 450 Unable to find host.ptsaemail.com
  SMTP>> QUIT
Connecting to mx00.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.32]:25 ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 ibm03aec.bellsouth.net ESMTP server ready Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:14:03 -0400
  SMTP>> EHLO host.ptsaemail.com
  SMTP<< 250-ibm03aec.bellsouth.net
         250-HELP
         250-PIPELINING
         250-DSN
         250-8BITMIME
         250 SIZE 26214400
  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1987
  SMTP>> RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
  SMTP>> DATA
  SMTP<< 450 Unable to find host.ptsaemail.com
  SMTP<< 503 Bad sequence of commands (specify MAIL first)
  SMTP<< 503 No sender specified
  SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
  == [email protected] <[email protected]> R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1987: host mx00.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.32]: 450 Unable to find host.ptsaemail.com
Return to Mail Queue

this message is when I try to choose deliver mail.

 

[S n I p E r]

Hello,

login via root throw SSH .

1 -

service exim stop

2 -

service exim start

3 -

service iptables stop

4 -

service iptables start

i hope it will solve it

good luck

 

[asmithjr]

Actualy it turns out that bellsouth (the only servers that could not see my server) were not able to locate the Name Server for the server. Seems their DNS is really slow to catch up.

I put a A record on another server they could talk to sending them to the proper IP and that cleared things up.

 

[S n I p E r]

Ok Man,,



Good Luck :D