receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Eric Smith
Hi All, Here is a strange issue, incoming mail for yahoo fails roughly every 10th time. Also this is (reportedly) only happening to yahoo emails, all other email domains come through just fine. The setup is on ubuntu 10.4 LTS with the standard packages, postfix, clamav, amavis and

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:39:58PM +, Eric Smith wrote: Hi All, Here is a strange issue, incoming mail for yahoo fails roughly every 10th time. Also this is (reportedly) only happening to yahoo emails, all other email domains come through just fine. The setup is on ubuntu 10.4 LTS

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Eric Smith
The problem is this yahoo and yahoo alone fails to make connections, the problem is random,most emails come through just fine, the specific failures are not repeatable. But an parker of ours uses yahoo business serves for their email, they are getting timeout bounces on 1 in 10 emails sent to us.

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-07-21 20:55, Eric Smith wrote: The problem is this yahoo and yahoo alone fails to make connections, the problem is random,most emails come through just fine, the specific failures are not repeatable. But an parker of ours uses yahoo business serves for their email, they are getting

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:55:35PM +, Eric Smith wrote: The problem is this yahoo and yahoo alone fails to make connections, the problem is random,most emails come through just fine, the specific failures are not repeatable. But an parker of ours uses yahoo business serves for their

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Eric Smith
Damn that was what I was afraid ofÅ .. Let see where that rabbit hole brings us, and thank you. Best eric eric smith senior network administrator http://www.techsoft3d.com email: e...@techsoft3d.com skype: eric_ae_smith phone: 510-333-1729 On 7/21/11 12:00 PM, Jeroen Geilman

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:05:41PM +, Eric Smith wrote: Damn that was what I was afraid of?.. So I am probably missing something in either my setup or in the log file hence why its included. No, the remote SMTP server not connecting to your server is not caused by your

Re: receiving yahoo mails fails every so often

2011-07-21 Thread Eric Smith
This box does one thing only cleans email before forwarding onto an exchange forest. The system is over kill, quad core intel, 16GB memory, hdd is a velociraptor. This is for a network on which we get around 1 email every second. System load never gets 0.1. DNS are two servers both on gigabit