Re: [hylafax-users] E-Mail Notification Problems...Again!

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you relying your mail in any internal DNS or are
you using a different mail server has a Relay?
Check the aliases for FaxMaster and if FreeBD has the
command newaliases re-run it.

--- Frank Griffith <glassdude45@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, as I mentioned, this setup has worked
> successfully before. The best part of HylaFax was
> having the received faxes and confirmations sent via
> e-mail.
>  
> I first deployed this HylaFax server in November of
> last year. The initial response was great but when
> the e-mails stopped coming, most of the users got
> scared and went right back to the standard fax
> machines. Then we began having trouble with
> receiving multi-page faxes and that scared away the
> rest of them.
>  
> In February I rebuilt the server from scratch and
> the e-mail notification began to work again. That
> went okay for a few months but then last week it
> stopped with the "user unknown" error. This is the
> only *nix box in our network and no one but me
> accesses it. The IT guys won't go near it so I'm
> reasonable sure nothing has been changed or edited.
>  
> This is the second time this has happened with the
> e-mail. I cannot seem to put my finger on why it
> works and then suddenly stops working.
>  
> I tried using the command line to send mail to any
> address and that too fails with "Domain of sender
> address does not exist" errors. Last week I used
> this same server to send e-mails to my home server.
> No problem. I just wish I could pin down why it
> worked fine last week but this week it's does not.
> 
> 
> Ian Firla <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Do you have a valid user / alias for FaxMaster?
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:10, Frank Griffith wrote:
> > HylaFax 4.2 running on FreeBSD-4.9 server with
> Sendmail. I realize
> > this is probably a sendmail issue but I can't get
> any help from that
> > group thus far.
> > 
> > The fax sever has worked well for several months
> but suddenly, the
> > e-mail notifications are no longer being sent out.
> When I check the
> > /etc/log/maillog file I find lines of text that
> end with this message:
> > 
> > User Unknown
> > 
> > When I check the root mail messages they contain
> this information
> > about the Unknown User:
> > 
> > Action: failed
> > Status: 5.1.1
> > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 User unknown
> > 
> > Someone told me that my sendmail configuration is
> broken. Well how the
> > heck did it get broken...again? We make no changes
> to sendmail and
> > this is the second time this same behavior has
> come up. The first time
> > I blew away the server and rebuilt the OS from
> scratch. It started to
> > work again and was just fine until just a few days
> ago Now the e-mail
> > notifications have once again ceased to go out.
> > 
> > I know very little about sendmail but can honestly
> swear that nothing
> > has been edited, changed or altered in anyway on
> this server. Has
> > anyone else run into this issue with sendmail?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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