Folks, I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole. I'm sending this from the web-based client at ATTBI.com, so I'm pretty sure this one's going to make it. Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation receipt the only choice? Thanks, Skip P.S. Additional info: I'm running Mandrake 8.1, with InteractiveBastille for setting up the firewall. I have a private LAN behind the firewall, so it's probably because I didn't answer one of the questions correctly while setting up the firewall. Do I need to enable inbound SMTP connections? I don't think so. (I have a registered IP name, but not a static IP address.)
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:59:40PM +0000, sgaede@attbi.com wrote:
I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole.
Is your SMTP server an AT&T one, or are you trying to use SMTP service from another site? Most sane sysadmins will not allow their SMTP server to relay mail off-site (because spammers abuse this lack of security), but will accept mail for local users. For this reason, you have to use your ISP's SMTP server. (Or an open relay, I suppose.) I use this configuration when I access work email from my RoadRunner connection. I am able to get mail from my work POP/IMAP server, but to send, I have to use my local RoadRunner SMTP server. (Which is often broken, BTW!)
Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation receipt the only choice?
Well, this rarely works, so it's always a bad choice, I think. ;) The best way is to make sure your SMTP is properly configured, and that delivery errors can be locally delivered back to you. (If that made no sense, hopefully someone else can explain it better? ;) ) -Chuck
At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede@attbi.com wrote:
Folks,
I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole.
Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed addresses.
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede@attbi.com wrote:
Folks,
I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole.
Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed addresses.
They have my new address! (Sorry, should have said that...)
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote:
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede@attbi.com wrote:
Folks,
I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole.
Would you believe I mistyped my email address in setup? I had sgaede@attbi.comt The extra "t" was the culprit... Sigh...
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