Mail refusing to leave my machine
I have two ISPs: Demon and Freeserve. In the last week it has become
almost impossible to send out mail (I'm sending this from a different
machine which seems to work). It's been slow at times in the past but
this is ridiculous.
I'm using Slink with smail. I've RTFMd till I'm dizzy and have fiddled
with /etc/resolv.conf for hours; sometimes it seems to work perfectly
but then it blocks again for hours and hours. What I find really odd is
that it can start and stop working without my having changed anything.
Messages in /var/spool/smail show "server unreachable"; "connection
refused".
Receiving mail, reading news, accessing websites are all fine.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? Should I install qmail or
exim perhaps?
Here is my /etc/resolv.conf in case this sheds any light.
#demon nameservers
nameserver 158.152.1.58
nameserver 158.152.1.43
#freeserve nameservers
nameserver 195.92.193.94
nameserver 195.92.193.95
nameserver 195.92.193.212
nameserver 195.92.193.210
Can anyone suggest what to try next?
Anthony
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Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
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