Re: Trouble sending e-mail -- DNS related

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:56:44 +0000, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
Dave Uhring wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:18:58 +0000, Jean-David Beyer wrote:

Since my e-mails go through Verizon's MTAs, is this my problem or
theirs? In another sense, it must be mine, since e-mails do not go
through.

If you mean by "go through" using Verizon's MTA as a smart host
(sendmail) or relayhost (postfix) and your /var/log/maillog shows that
Verizon has accepted your message traffic then the problem lies with
Verizon.

No, I do not send much through my sendmail into Verizon's MTA, though I
do that with about 1 e-mail a week. I usually just use Thunderbird
through Verizon's MTA. That does not appear in my sendmail logs, of
course.

Best way to find out then where the error lies is to configure your MTA
to relay through Verizon's and point your MUA at your own MTA. Then you
have a record of what happened.
.

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