Email problems

Virtualmin
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Huh I always seem to get email problems on a new install of virtualmin

Well this time emails are not been sent from sites and also I can’t connect using windows live mail

http://vodkaholic.co.uk/files/mail.log

this is my /var/log/mail.log

Not sure if this is the right log to show you guys ;/

Cheers

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Howdy,

That is indeed the correct log – however, it’s rather huge… it’d be great if you could show the logs that occur whenever attempting to send or receive an email that you’re having problems with.

I do see a couple of issues that stand out though – in one case, it doesn’t look like an email is being given a from address, and it’s using “shieldomega@debian.server”, which is likely derived from your hostname.

You’d want to make sure you have an FQDN as your hostname – which is in the format host.domain.com.

Also, I see this error towards the top of your logs:

host mta7.am0.yahoodns.net[66.94.236.34] refused to talk to me: 553 5.7.1 [BL21]
Connections will not be accepted from 86.6.56.216, because the ip is in Spamhaus’s list; see
http://postmaster.yahoo.com/550-bl23.html

That suggests that your IP is listed in an RBL. In fact, looking here, it’s listed in 3 RBL’s:

http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check-results/?host=86.6.56.216

That would prevent it from being delivered to a any mail server doing lookups at those RBL’s.

-Eric

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Hey Eric what hostname should I use? and how would I go about changing it

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You can use any hostname you want, it just needs to be in the FQDN format, and it should exist.

You can change it in Webmin -> Networking -> Hostname and DNS.

You can make sure it exists in Virtualmin -> DOMAIN -> Server Configuration -> DNS Records.

-Eric

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I don’t seem to have that option in networking Eric

http://i.imgur.com/GrCrt.jpg

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( also is there anyway to get a email back when someone reply’s on a thread on this site? I can’t see to find the option anywhere) not a on topic question I know sorry

Edit = nvm I found the option hope it works :smiley:

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Hey I found it under

Webmin >> Networking >> Network Configuration >> Hostname and DNS Client

Ive added
debian.vodkaholic.co.uk

http://i.imgur.com/eeAu9.jpg

Would that be ok?

Cheers

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Sorry, that’s what I get for trying to remember the path to that option off the top of my head :slight_smile:

Yes, changing your hostname as you suggested should work just fine (though you’d also want to add a DNS ‘A’ record as described above).

-Eric

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No worry’s :slight_smile:

Eric am still not getting emails from the site :frowning:

http://vodkaholic.co.uk/files/mail1.log
Here is a log from when I tryed to send a email

Cheers

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Your logs there all look good! I see several messages that were accepted by the remove server for delivery.

I don’t see any errors or problems in your logs.

You may want to verify that your emails aren’t in the spam folder, maybe they were flagged as spam for some reason.

-Eric