[H-GEN] Clairvoyance requested regarding SMTP errors

[Raymond Smith]

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Raymond Smith wrote:
> My work mail server styx.ooc.com.au has a 'backup' mail server
> atlas.bit.net.au which is supplied to us by our ISP. The respective
> preference values are 50 and 100.

Well, it turns out that our ISP had changed its mail server's name without
telling us. Apparently they forgot that some of their customers run their
own DNS.

Of course, I managed to stuff up the DNS at first (forgot to update SOA)
and now the new mailserver appears to be misconfigured. But where would
the fun be if life were easy :-)

Thanks to Anthony Towns who told me that atlas had stopped working for
him too.

Raymond


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