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From: Guest <Guest@klonezone.tfnet.or
To: Ted Brindle <Ted_Brindle@spider
Subject: Re: Default Gateway Glitch
Date:Tue, August 18, 1998 05:30 AM


Ted:
Get Rusty to DELETE your TFNet connection entry.


I am getting tired of bouncing your long disconnected List Server traffic.


On 8/17/98 8:33 PM, Ted Brindle wrote:

>I made no changes to my email gateway, but I am now having problems with
>it. Here is an entry in the log.
>8/17/98 8:05:01 PM (SMTP Client2) Send: HELO
>8/17/98 8:05:01 PM (SMTP Client2) Send: MAIL FROM Ted Brindle
><brindlet@grps.k12.mi.us>
>8/17/98 8:05:02 PM (SMTP Client2) Send: RCTP TO
>Ted_Brindle@home.grps.k12.mi.us
>8/17/98 8:05:03 PM (SMTP Client2) 551
><Ted_Brindle@home.grps.k12.mi.us>... illegal relay
>8/17/98 8:05:03 PM (SMTP Client2) Recipient rejected
>8/17/98 8:05:03 PM () Write msg to brindlet@grps.k12.mi.us
>8/17/98 8:05:03 PM (SMTP Client2) Closing connection
>Ted_Brindle@home.grps.k12.mi.us should arrive in my TF mailbox. It gets
>kicked back to me in my main account on our district wide server.
>
>The changes that did occur. I moved all of my software, BBS files,
>topics and webspace to a 9650/350. The mail plugin had a bear of a time
>accepting the password that Ken gave me. I had to enter it 3 times
>before it took. I set up a gateway to accept USENET from the system that
>I run at home.
>
>On 8/17/98 11:06 AM, Rusty Tucker wrote:
>
>>On 8/17/98 8:20 AM, Ron Beloin wrote:
>>
>>>About a week ago I started receiving reports that out-going mail
>wasn't
>>
>>>arriving at its destination. Since I haven't changed any of the MS
>>>settings for months (and the mail just disappeared instead of
>>bouncing),
>>
>>
>>:), thge settings rarely change themselves... anyway - if the mail
>>"disappeared, but not bounced", it means that it is either still on
>your
>>system, or still on the system of the TF system you're routing to.
>>
>>
>>>I assumed the problem was with the STMP server we forward through.
>>>Today I (finally) noticed that MS was "sending" the mail out through a
>
>>>TF gateway. Since the STMP gateway was still marked as the default, I
>
>>>deleted that TF gateway.
>>
>>SMTP -should- be default. That means that mail not handled by some
>>other gateway will be handled by the SMTP gateway, this is what you
>>want.
>>
>>
>>> MS then started writing to a different, but
>>>still not the default, gateway.
>>
>>That would be because it has a "domain" listed that matches up with the
>
>>messages "to" address.
>>
>>> I've only got mail forwarding correctly
>>>now by deleting all of my gateways except for STMP and Lollipop. Has
>>>anyone else had this kind of glitch with MS5.6? My other gateways
>were
>>
>>>more conveniences than necessities and I don't want to add them back
>in
>>
>>>if this is likely to happen again!
>>
>>What kind of convenience?
>>
>>
>>Rusty Tucker
>>Spider Island
>

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