-----Original Message----- From: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:courier-users- adm...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Zenon Panoussis Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:29 PM To: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: Courier does not deliver mail - courieresmtp spins on each outbound message

David Humphrey wrote:

Are you sure it's courier? Take one of the destination addresses from the mail in your spool. Do host -t mx domain where "domain" is the part after @ in the e-mail address. then try telnet host 25 where "host" is the reply you got from the previous command. If you get an answer, send a mail manually, like this: helo yourownhostname mail From: <youraddress> rcpt To: <destinationaddress> data

blah . quit

Note the sole dot on a line before "quit".

Then repeat inbound: telnet localhost 25 helo localhost mail From: <validuser@localhost> rcpt To: <validuser@localhost> data

blah . quit

If this works, then you should probably go back to fighting with the courier configuration. If the first test doesn't work, you have a network (configuation) problem. If the second test ends with "connection refused", you forgot to flip the last configuration directive in esmtpd to YES.

Forgive me if I suuggest things that you already tried long ago, but sometimes the simplest problems are the most difficult to see.