E-Mail notifications

[Tsar Hoikas]

No, you're not, but I assure you there is nothing wrong on this end. Notifications are still going out. Whether or not you are getting them is a different story, unfortunately.

Does that mean that your mailer logs show that my lost messages were actually accepted by the GMX mail server? If so, I could confront GMX customer support with that.

I can't find anything in any log file about any of the missing messages...

[Christian Walther]

So how do you know that they went out? In any case, since you mentioned sendmail logs on IRC, I assume you have complete control over the e-mail system on that server? If so, could you turn up some log level to have the outgoing SMTP connections logged? I administrate a Mac OS X mail server that uses Postfix as its MTA and it logs the status of every outgoing SMTP connection, including the SMTP ID assigned by the remote server.

Anyway, here are the headers of a recent topic reply notification to my working e-mail address (all @ replaced by spaces for the spammers):

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Return-Path: <www-data GSU.main>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on phi.ibone.ch
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no
   version=3.2.3
X-Original-To: cwalther kolleegium.ch
Delivered-To: web313p1 phi.ibone.ch
Received: from GSU.main (244.51.233.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com [72.233.51.244])
   by phi.ibone.ch (phi.ibone.ch) with ESMTPS id B92E61834880
   for <cwalther kolleegium.ch>; Fri,  3 Jul 2009 19:43:16 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from GSU.main (GSU.main [127.0.0.1])
   by GSU.main (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id n63HZCY6000460
   for <cwalther kolleegium.ch>; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:35:12 -0500
Received: (from www-data localhost)
   by GSU.main (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n63HZB8p000459;
   Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:35:11 -0500
To: "=?UTF-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aWFuIFdhbHRoZXI=?=" <cwalther kolleegium.ch>
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?VG9waWMgcmVwbHkgbm90aWZpY2F0aW9uIC0gIlplcm8gRGl2aXNpb24gRXJy?=
 =?UTF-8?B?b3Ii?=
From: <contact guildofwriters.com>
Reply-To: <contact guildofwriters.com>
Sender: <contact guildofwriters.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <4f9818e2197aaf07b94f8cae6c4e0590 guildofwriters.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:35:11 -0500
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: PhpBB3
X-MimeOLE: phpBB3
X-phpBB-Origin: phpbb://forum.guildofwriters.com

One thing I notice in comparison to the last working message to the now failing GMX address is that your server now identifies itself as "GSU.main", while it was "chirpspace.com" before. Perhaps that could be the problem? SpamAssassin on phi.ibone.ch at least notices it, and maybe for GMX this is reason enough to discard the message without notice? (That would seem a bit harsh, but you never know.)

[Tsar Hoikas]

Though I have enough control to monitor for and fix any dire problems on this server, I'm not at liberty to change every detail... The server name and other details like that being one of them. Sorry

If it were *my* server where I was the supreme ruler, I'd be pulling out the stops... I used to be the big cheese admin, but not after a certain small company merged with a slightly larger company. In other words: I have little power now.

[Christian Walther]

OK, no problem. It would have been nice to get to the bottom of this (if only to make sure I'm not missing any other e-mails at my main address), but for the moment I can live with using my alternative address for this forum.

[diafero]

I just got some email notifications, so it seems someone fixed it

[diafero]

Sorry that I once again refresh this old ugly topic, but I once again don't get email notifications for the last four PMs from the last two days - can you see any issues on your side?

[Jojon]

SameHereTM :P

[Tsar Hoikas]

I can't say anything about the email notifications... Maybe they'll start working again. I have no idea why it does that.

As for the time issue, I think I need to poke a server admin or three.

[diafero]

I just got an email from the GoW

[Tsar Hoikas]

You should notice that email notification are now being sent out