Re: Your mail server is a mess!! WAS: Re: Graphics for presentation

["Marc" <marc () marcd org>]

Unfortunately, it's a hosted mail sever at Hostrocket.com that I use for one
of my personal accounts. (if it were my server, this wouldn't happen :-) ).
I have limited admin capability on this one.  I have opened a support
ticket.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge () linuxbox org] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 08:17
To: Jon.Kibler () aset com
Cc: Marc; Sean Kendall Schneyer
Subject: Re: Your mail server is a mess!! WAS: Re: [funsec] Graphics for
presentation

I'm CC:ing Sean who may have a clue on what's going on with Marc's 
server from our end, but he is extremely busy these days.

        Gadi.


Jon Kibler wrote:
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>
> Marc,
>
> Your mail server is all screwed up!! I just received something like the
11th and
> 12th copy of your posting!! (Well, maybe not quite that many, but I have
lost
> track, having deleted the duplicates.)
>
> Looking at the mail headers from the two most recent messages, I see the
problem:
> > Received: from relay2.hrnoc.net (relay2.hrnoc.net [216.120.237.254])
> >      by linuxbox.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id
n664OTiH014606
> >      (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
> >      for <funsec () linuxbox org>; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:24:30 -0500
> > Received: from smtp-1.hrnoc.net ([216.120.225.37])
> >      by relay2.hrnoc.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
> >      (envelope-from <marc () marcd org>) id 1MMkFu-0005kH-LQ
> >      for funsec () linuxbox org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:50 -0400
>
>
> > Received: from relay2.hrnoc.net (relay2.hrnoc.net [216.120.237.254])
> >      by linuxbox.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id
n664gRVQ015691
> >      (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
> >      for <funsec () linuxbox org>; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:42:28 -0500
> > Received: from smtp-1.hrnoc.net ([216.120.225.37])
> >      by relay2.hrnoc.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
> >      (envelope-from <marc () marcd org>) id 1MMkFu-0005kH-LQ
> >      for funsec () linuxbox org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:50 -0400
>
>
> If you look at the line "Received: from smtp-1.hrnoc.net", you will see
that
> both messages claim to have been received on "Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:50
-0400".
> However, that system (apparently dual homed) repeated sending the same
message
> at two completely different times:
>    Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:24:30 -0500
>    Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:42:28 -0500
>
> I suspect that the message is actually being sent, but for some reason the
Exim
> on your end does not think that the message was received by the other end
> (linuxbox.org) and keeps trying to resend it. You need to contact whoever
runs
> relay2.hrnoc.net and whack them with a clue bat.
>
> Gadi, do you see anything in your sendmail logs that may give him a clue
what is
> going bad on his end?
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Jon Kibler
> - --
> Jon R. Kibler
> Chief Technical Officer
> Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc.
> Charleston, SC  USA
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>
> My PGP Fingerprint is:
> BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253
>
>
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-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge () linuxbox org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/

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