I see similar problems with microsoft.com, and a couple of others. Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gmelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Qmail LDAP Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:33 PM Subject: CNAME lookup failures @ microsoft.com > Hello folks, > > I've got massive problems in sending Emails via qmail to microsoft.com. > I'm using qmail-1.0.3 wit qmail-ldap-patch-20011001something (used > qmail-ldap-patch-20010301 before). > I'm always getting: > > Oct 18 00:28:43 kleinerwu qmail: 1003357723.045219 starting delivery 2: msg > 24271 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 18 00:28:43 kleinerwu qmail: 1003357723.045560 status: local 0/10 remote > 1/2 > 0 > Oct 18 00:28:43 kleinerwu qmail: 1003357723.048199 delivery 2: deferral: > CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ > > I tried this on different platforms (Solaris 2.8 SPARC, FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE). > My first thought was this oversized DNS thing (but the patch should be > included in qmail-ldap. Btw the qmail-patch for oversized dns-packages > provided by qmail.org links into a black hole :( > Sometimes mail is sent, but only 1 of 20 times. Most mail gets lost (too > long in queue), and the message bounces to sender (after 1 week). A > subjective user impression was, that mails containing attachments are > getting lost more often (but I'm sure this is a myth :) > Is anyone experiencing similar problems, or has any idea? > > Btw: Mail sent to aol.com is received without any problems. > Btw: Sending mail to microsoft.com using different mail-servers (e.g. > stalker) is working without any problems, so I think it has to be > qmail(-ldap) related. > > Thanks for all your help, > michael > >
