From: Edward D. <ed...@td...> - 2008-01-22 02:04:09
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> > Use the ISP SMTP server but make sure your sender/reply to address > is a > >valid one at the ISP. > Well, as I mentioned before I tried using localhost for SMTP and > sending > the email alert to a local user. Nothing happened, no logs appeared, > etc. I also did try my ISP email address at one time. Not really what I meant. OK - my ADSL account is with Westnet. My e-mail address that they gave me at the time is something like no...@we.... I can send mail through their smtp server - smtp.westnet.com.au as long as my e-mail address and reply-to address is set to no...@we.... That way any mail that doesn't reach its destination or has other errors bounce back correctly to that address. So for me to find out if there are any errors, I just check my account no...@we... to see what the deal is. Now, If I was to send mail in the same way but with a mail domain which doesn't exist OR (as in your case) a domain that DOES exist but has no valid mail server to send to. So what I'm saying is I set my e-mail address or reply-to address to ze...@bi... then my SMTP server will probably accept that mail for delivery, because my IP address is a valid one within the ISP IP block so I'm no threat. SO The mail leaves on its merry final destination - let's say gmail. IF gmail rejects your message for ANY reason - it would send a rejection bounce to ze...@bi.... Or at least try to. However, when their mail server looks up biyg.org under DNS - it finds the MX record mail.biyg.com. That address does not respond. In other words no mail server to send to. That is what I mean when I say the bounces hit a black hole. There is no way to let you know things have screwed up. I've noticed even the e-mail address you've registered with this list is ze...@bi.... UNLESS you mail is hosted anywhere (and THAT is another long story), OR you have your own mail server, using that address is not a smart thing. >From what I can tell biyg.com was last modified 20/11/2007 and has dns-diy-net as the DNS provider. This part looks good. Mail.dns-diy.com resolves to 74.200.220.215 This is also good. HOWEVER If I telnet to that address on the SMTP port - I get connection refused. So your incoming mail is not working on that address. How do you really expect anything to work if that mail address doesn't? Regards, Ed. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. |