local mail modification

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by mg3hockey, Oct 7, 2011.

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    Hello all,

    Lately my server has been either blocking its own outgoing mail, or it gets filtered as spam (there is a script I run that sends and email to customers when they make a purchase) So my customers have not been getting their emails.

    I have been looking into this for some time now and I wanted to know if this could be a fix.

    If I move all of my incoming and outgoing server email to a paid service like Gmail for business and I still keep the script locally, will the customers still get the emails the script generates sense the webmail is no longer locally hosted?


    Thank you,
    Michael
     
    mg3hockey, Oct 7, 2011 IP
  2. AnthonyG

    AnthonyG Well-Known Member

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    You actually need to just fix the server issue, what is the mail log showing when the server itself blocks a outbound email?

    You also need to check the mail log for the ISP's filtering your mail as spam and find out what error code they are stating is the cause of the filtering.
     
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  3. mg3hockey

    mg3hockey Active Member

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    The problem is I am running multiple sites off one server and big name email providers are really cracking down on incoming emails without match smtp banners and rdns settings. Obviously you can only match one site to those settings and then the emails you send from the other sites get denied.

    Right now I am seeing 451 stmp error locally. I cannot even send mail anymore ha but I just changed my hostname to match records so still looking for the fix.
     
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    Post up the errors from the maillog.
     
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    For some reason when I go to pull my mail logs ssh shows that none exist

    /var/log/ -> dir -d and nothing is in the folder... strange, looking into it

    Thank you!
     
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