[TriLUG] Postfix, Relay and nc.rr.com

[Dave Sorenson]

Me thinks RR is having some issues today. Everything I've sent this 
morning is being delayed by 15-20 minutes. (I'm e-mailling a number of 
docs to my work account).

Dave

Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
> I have SUSE 10.1 box at home that acts as a mail gateway for a personal
> domain I have. I have RoadRunner at home and for the last little while
> everything has been working just fine using smtp-server.nc.rr.com as my
> relay.
>
> Well, today I noticed in the log files all out going e-mails had been
> deferred queued in postfix with this error:
> (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
> name=smtp-server.nc.rr.com type=MX: Host not found, try again)
>
> I can ping the server just fine, but no relay.
>
> Anybody know if RR has started blocking mail relay now? I can set my
> relay server to my postfix server at work and it works fine (but I can't
> leave it that way since I am leaving for another job in a couple of
> weeks.)
>
> Is there a server at trilug.org that members can use for relay? I
> thought this was asked previously but couldn't find anything specific on
> the topic. I would just let my gateway deliver the mail, but then I run
> into problems where several ISPs are blocking the dynamic IP ranges of
> broadband providers like RR.
>
> Any other valid options out there for relay? This is just the family
> domain so there isn't a lot of mail traffic, but would like to continue
> hosting it at home.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>