Re: Can send email, but not receive

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

technician <technician.wst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I hope this is an okay spot to post a qmail question

Yes, this is the appropriate place.

> To install Qmail I followed the guide at www.qmailrocks.org,

I was under the impression that that site was not a "guide", but an installer
script which attempted to do a "Life with qmail"-style installation for you.
If that's not the case, ignore the rest of this paragraph.  You would be
better off ignoring that site; instead, follow the original "Life with qmail"
(at lifewithqmail.org) to install the software yourself, by hand -- that way,
you'll actually understand what you have.

> and had no problems for a few weeks until just recently when I found out
> spammers were using my server as a relay because I left rcpthosts wide open.

This is the type of problem you would never have had, if you had actually
followed "Life with qmail" yourself.

> Basically everything is chipper except for the fact that I can only
> send email (verified by sending to multiple accounts off-site), but
> not receive it. People sending email have reported bouncing, however
> when I send email to myself from off-site I don't get any bounces
> back. It's almost like the email is just sitting somewhere...is there
> any way to verify that the email has at least made it to my server and
> Hivemail is the problem?

Yes:  you need to look at the mail server logs for the MTA that accepted your
mail.  Those logs will say exactly where your message is, and give the results
of all delivery attempts.  Contact the system administrator.

Charles
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