[Babase] Emails from the backup system

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed Nov 18 12:49:43 EST 2009


On 11/18/2009 11:09:16 AM, Niki Learn wrote:
> I sometimes get reports that something has been filtered out as spam
> (and
> have received such recently) but have not received any concerning
> these
> emails. At other times Outlook moves things to the bulk mail box as
> they
> come in and announces it as it does it - that also has not happened
> with
> these emails.  I do not know where else I would look.  ?

The ones that are missing are
the ones sent from dumbo, and dumbo is sort of special in
that it is not reachable from the Internet.

It's a spam filter problem, but not one that can be solved
at Niki's end.

I see that Susan's not getting some email too.  I see
the following in the logs:

Nov 18 08:01:19 papio postfix/smtp[31763]: BE07A160875: 
to=<nlearn at princeton.edu>, r
elay=ppa02.princeton.edu[128.112.128.216], delay=1, status=bounced 
(host ppa02.princ
eton.edu[128.112.128.216] said: 553 5.1.8 <root at dumbo.localnet>... 
Domain of sender
address root at dumbo.localnet does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM 
command)

And I have
mail queued on papio that looks like:


6928016063D      827 Mon Nov 16 21:10:08  root at dumbo.localnet
(host mx.oit.duke.edu[152.3.189.28] said: 450 <root at dumbo.localnet>: 
Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to RCPT TO 
command))
                                         alberts at duke.edu

I should have looked at the logs sooner.  I thought something like
this might happen.

So, I will have papio rewrite dumbo's mail so that it looks
like the mail is coming from papio not dumbo.  Not a problem.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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