sendmail broken

[tommythejoat]

I may want to use the email integration mod for 3.7 if I can. In that case I will need the inbound mail. I set up mail accounts for the forums that will be using it and it is turned on right now but I don't think there is any traffic.

[snakes1100]

I would doubt anything will work at this point until you fix all the issues, spamass will most likely stop anything from coming in as its also broke fro mthe msg its leving in the logs.

[tommythejoat]

I may be getting out on thin ice, but I decided to do some "obvious" things. I changed the host name to host.nawcc.org from centos-5.3 and I created an A record for it locally on the whm machine.

We are in the process of moving our home site nawcc.org from WestHost to the new server, but have not yet finished that. Currently our DNS entries for nawcc.org at NSx.name-services.com (BulkRegister) differ from those on the whm system.

The entries on the whm system for mb.nawcc.org point to the NSx.name-services.com. There are 4 NS entries.

The entries on the whm system for nawcc.org are NS1 and NS2.nawcc-host.net (i.e. the local machine's name servers). I think this is necessary while we are building it from the current copy at WestHost. I hope this does not interfere with mb.nawcc.org and I cannot see how it could.

--------------- Added [DATE]1255727861[/DATE] at [TIME]1255727861[/TIME] ---------------

How about that!:up:

That one insignificant change seems to have done it. I just sent myself a message using the message board's form mail.

I am very happy. At least until the next shoe drops.

[snakes1100]

Good Job!

Don't forget to fix spamass if the log file still shows its broken in the future if u add incoming email to the server.

[tommythejoat]

I still need to get email integration working, but we have not yet decided if we will really use it with vBulletin.

I am now moving to the next job of setting up the Single Sign On using the .net authentication with some modules provided by our back office vendor.

It turns out the mail problem was not quite as bad as I thought. Some other users who have more lenient mail servers were getting mails just fine all along. It was only us paranoid emailers that have reverse DNS requirements that were being left out.

It looks like over half the new registrations went through OK.

Thanks for the pointers.

[snakes1100]

The reverse record usually points back to the IP holder listed at arin, as long as one is supplied, it don't matter if its reversed back to your domain, i dont recall and email host denying for it not pointing to the correct domain, just as long as it exists for the IP itself.

Yahoo & AOL are the worse.