On Wednesday 01 September 2004 11:30, Hari Kurup wrote: > Kiggs, > If I were you, I would have only one MX for now as you look for a > secondary. That way, mails like Tinka's would have been deferred by his > server...
I actually run my own mail server on my laptop; which isn't such a big deal, until you turn off the laptop, and the next queue run is done the day after. > than rejected by that MX that you have been kicked out from. You could change the MX server IP address (or MX record, if it's not that critical) until you figure something out - but that would only be a short-term solution. Mark. > > Kurup > > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 11:12, Kiggundu Mukasa said thus: > > The secondary server is under attack by spammers so its access was shut > > down. > > For some reason the spammers thaink there are tens of thousands of > > people with a kym.net address so they send every name starting with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that is thousands and thousands directly to the > > secondary MX for relaying to kym.net. > > > > This is slowing down the secondary tremendously by queueing so many > > mails. > > > > A new secondary is being sought. > > > > Kiggs > > > > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:21, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > I think there's a problem with one of the (secondary) MX servers for > > > the list. A couple of times a month I get these errors (most recent was > > > last night): > > > > > > ************* > > > > > > 2004-08-31 18:03:59 1C2B1d-0004ik-T8 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup > > > T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT > > > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host sms.ugandatelecom.com [213.177.165.17]: 554 > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied > > > > > > 2004-08-31 18:04:14 1C2B1d-0004ik-T8 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup > > > T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT > > > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host spice.eahd.or.ug [212.88.97.141]: 550 relay > > > not permitted > > > > > > ************* > > > > > > Kiggs, maybe you could check this out. > > > > > > Mark. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > LUG mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
