Chambers, Phil | 1 Sep 2008 18:18
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Re: incoming message lost


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> From: exim-users-bounces <at> exim.org 
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces <at> exim.org] On Behalf Of Francesco Pasqualini
> Sent: Mon 01 September 2008 15:47
> To: exim-users <at> exim.org
> Subject: Re: [exim] incoming message lost
> 
> Yes you are right, may be the message are queued in the 
> sender mailserver,
> that will retry in the future....
> but the problem remain... every attempt to send mail from 
> some domains get
> lost connection problem...
> 
> 
> > No message was ever received to be lost, as the sending 
> side never made
> > it past the initial connection. Spambots and some really 
> crappy old mail
> > servers do this. Any decent mail server will try again.
> >
> > Generally, not something to worry about.

Do you have an application-level firewall between the Internet and your
mail server?  If you do have, it may be deciding not to allow the
connection to continue because of rules of its own.

Check with your networking people to find out what is between your mail
server and your Internet link.
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Francesco Pasqualini | 1 Sep 2008 19:07
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Re: incoming message lost

Hi !
I'm the networking pepole. :-)
The exim server is on DMZ, the tcp/ip ports needed to comunicate smtp are
open.
In fact we receive emails from many domains but not from some domains.

I didn't setup any firewall rules to stop establised connections to
continue.
I can double check this, but I'm quite shure.

Moreover absolutely no special rule is on the firewall about the connections
from/to the backup MX server, but from there the email are arriving with no
problems.

thnaks a lot for the help

Francesco Pasqualini

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Chambers, Phil <P.A.Chambers <at> exeter.ac.uk>wrote:

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>
>
> Do you have an application-level firewall between the Internet and your
> mail server?  If you do have, it may be deciding not to allow the
> connection to continue because of rules of its own.
>
> Check with your networking people to find out what is between your mail
> server and your Internet link.
>
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Dave Lugo | 1 Sep 2008 19:12

Re: incoming message lost

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Francesco Pasqualini wrote:
>
> Hi !
> I'm the networking pepole. :-)

Look at path mtu as mentioned earlier.

Sniff the connection to get more clues as to what
is happening.

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Francesco Pasqualini | 1 Sep 2008 21:17
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Re: incoming message lost

Ok,
I'll try, if you have some hint how to proceed (tools, tutorial) I'll
appreciate....
May be this was an old problem of my mail infrastructure that i didn't know
about because the secondary MX acts as a workaround.

thanks

> Look at path mtu as mentioned earlier.
>
> Sniff the connection to get more clues as to what
> is happening.
>
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