Email Server Not Working 3
Yesterday, I was told that there was some issue with email here. Messages were bouncing. After a little research, it was determined that the ISP had decided to filter port 25 inbound AND outbound. That began around 1:50am on Wednesday morning. I know this because there are logs. Why did they change this after 12 years? I’ll never know.
That means anyone sending emails to jdpfu.com addresses will get bounced until I do something to correct the issue. I’m still researching solutions that don’t entail giving up too much control, too much privacy or cost $50/month more. I’m completely addicted to having an enterprise communications server, Zimbra, in our case here. Completely Addicted.
If you’re sending email to any address here … and there are hundreds … expect a bounce. The email standard used to retry for 4 days before sending a bounced message to the original sender. I bet most email servers stop attempting delivery after a few hours now.
I’m finding the lack of email refreshing. Don’t get me wrong, the internal emails between computer systems are still working, so there are 50 system status, cron, and periodic messages getting send and seen internally every day, just all external connections are broken. None of that external email was really all that important.
Nice ISP.
The probable solution costs $50/yr to another service provider. Perhaps I should get a Netflix subscription to really make the ISP happy? The current monthly bandwidth usage here is less than half the published maximum.
Time to get the credit card out. In theory, by the time this is published, the solution should be in-place and working.
They did it for your own good, don’tcha know? Port 25 is used by evil hackers to DDoS and steal megahertz.
You can always config your mailserver to use gmail or something…I did that with a problematic box once.
no-ip with mx port redirection? Ugly fix, but might work.