No doubt I am now showing off my Internet ignorance, but, anyway, here's how
I fixed it...
I looked at the .logs, and the smtpinfo seems to suggest that JAMES received
the message but did not recognize the server name, so it relays the message.
When I registered my domain name with register.com, relayn.exodus.com (where
n= 1 to 6) were automatically made backup mail servers.
So what happened, I believe, is JAMES relays the message. The DNS sends the
message to the exodus server. the exodus server relays it back to JAMES.
Again, JAMES relays the message to the next exodus server... and so on. One
big loop until the max hops is reached and the message bounces.
My solution was to use the <servername> values to get JAMES to recognize
itself as the target server.
My MX record points at www.steveb.net as the mail server (I have 1-server
doing everything as this is my 'home-projects' setup). The target email
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did not know which was correct, so I added <servername> entries:
www.steveb.net, steveb.net, and www.
Thanks again for a wonderful service!
Steve B.
----- Original Message -----
From: Federico Barbieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Java Apache Mail Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: Feedback on JAMES
> Steve Belt wrote:
> >
> > Cool!
> >
> > I recently discovered your release of JAMES. I must commend you on how
> > simple you made installation. I only had to update the path to find
java,
> > and I was up and running! Wow!
>
> That's a thing that makes me really happy!!! It's the hard part for a
> coder to make things simple... :-)
> (Just remember to add in the avalon.conf.xml your DNS server Ip or name)
>
> >
> > A couple of thing I've noticed:
> >
> > 1) I am able to telnet the administrator from Linux with no problems;
> > however, when I try to telnet from Win98, I am unable to connect. The
> > admininfo.log file says something about being unable to maintain
connection.
> > (sorry, since I got it working from Linux, I cannot get the
admininfo.log to
> > reproduce the message)
> >
>
> Like for POP3 and SMTP connection there is a timeout and the connection
> is dropped. Check the
> <connectiontimeout>. If it's not that try to send some logs.
>
> > 2) After creating a user, I am able to send emails from that account;
> > however, when I try to send an email to them, the message bounces back
to me
> > saying:
> >
> > The original message was received at Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:12:44 -0700
> > from [<my ip address>]
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 554 Too many hops 26 (25 max): from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> via
> > [<my ip address>], to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Where do I set the number of hops in a Win98 system? Is this an O/S
setting
> > or a JAMES setting? I get this email regardless of where I send the
email
> > from.
>
> Actually it seems to me that James cannot find the DNS... place this
> value in confs and try again.
>
> >
> > 3) Is this an open relay? Or is the ID/Passwd used to verify users
before
> > sending email?
> >
>
> Right now SMTP is open that means anyone can use it to send mail.
>
> > Thanks,
> > and Great Job!
> >
>
> Thanks
>
> Federico
>
>
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