auto mounting shares on OS 9 problem

[Andy Schwarz]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 08:22  PM, Eagle wrote:

> On Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, at 18:45 US/Eastern, godfatherK wrote:
>> After resolving a peculiar DNS and password issue, I thought the Mail 
>> Service was peachy and dandy, but...
>> I have tried sending an email using a newly created account 
>> tester at bigheadproduction to my other email account @earthlink.net.  
>> It worked.
>> I have tried sending an email using @earthlink.net account to 
>> @bigheadproduction.com (the Mac OS X Server 10.2.1 that I just set 
>> up), but emails just vanish somewhere in internet.  No bounces, no 
>> error messages.
>
> I would guess that you will shortly get a warning message from 
> earthlink's mail servers, saying that your message is queued on their 
> servers still.  bigheadproduction.com resolves to 66.149.252.101, but 
> there is no response to port 25 at that address.  There is no ping 
> reply either.
>
> In this case, the earthlink mail server will continue to attempt to 
> send your mail for five days, and only after that will you get a 
> bounce if it doesn't go through.
>
>> I sent the emails out from a Mac OS X 10.2.1 client on the LAN where 
>> the server resides.
>> I tried using both the long and short names of the user's account in 
>> Mail's Preferences.
>> Checking "Look Up" using Network Utility on the client, 
>> "mail.bigheadproduction.com" and "bigheadproduction.com" all 
>> correctly resolve to the server (192.168.1.2).
>
> That is all true for your LAN side, but for those of us outside your 
> LAN it will be different.
>
>> Because the WAN connection is Earthlink DSL, I must use 
>> mail.earthlink.net as the SMTP server for all the email accounts I 
>> use.  I use DynDNS.org's service to make easy for the world to find 
>> the server, and when I checked, all the bigheadproduction.com hosts 
>> including mail.bigheadproduction.com pointed to the right external IP 
>> address of mine.
>>
>> Help please.  Thank you.
>
> Is your firewall/router forwarding port 25 to your mail server 
> (192.168.1.2)?
>
> Eagle
>
>
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