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Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:33 am
by thehemi
Can this config be addressed so I can receive emails from these forums?

Deferred: 450 4.1.8 <texaschl@server.texaschlforum.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

# nslookup server.texaschlforum.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
** server can't find server.texaschlforum.com: NXDOMAIN

Thanks!
Scott

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:08 am
by mojo84
Interesting 1st post.

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:52 am
by RoyGBiv
Put the domain on your whitelist?
It's not that the site is failing to send the email, it's that your mail server is rejecting it.
Not much the site can do to fix your mail server filter.... IMO.

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:09 pm
by Acronym Esq
thehemi wrote:Can this config be addressed so I can receive emails from these forums?
Deferred: 450 4.1.8 <texaschl@server.texaschlforum.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

# nslookup server.texaschlforum.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
** server can't find server.texaschlforum.com: NXDOMAIN
I have never gotten an email from this forum either, but I never bothered to track it down. Makes sense that receiving mail server might do an nslookup on the "from" field to verify that the address is valid.
server.texaschlforum.com does not resolve
texaschlforum.com does resolve

Is it possible that adding "server." to the from field in automatic emails sent from texaschlforum.com causes my mail server to reject the message because the server doesn't resolve?

Acronym 11/14/2017 12:06 PM

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:15 pm
by thehemi
mojo84 wrote:Interesting 1st post.
That's because it was my first issue trying to get registered. :)

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:17 pm
by thehemi
RoyGBiv wrote:Put the domain on your whitelist?
It's not that the site is failing to send the email, it's that your mail server is rejecting it.
Not much the site can do to fix your mail server filter.... IMO.
There's nothing -broke- that I need to fix on my mail server. There's little reason to allow emails from invalid senders, IMHO.

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:19 pm
by thehemi
Acronym Esq wrote:Is it possible that adding "server." to the from field in automatic emails sent from texaschlforum.com causes my mail server to reject the message because the server doesn't resolve?
Most likely. I imagine all major mail providers reject emails from senders that don't resolve.

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:26 pm
by mojo84
thehemi wrote:
mojo84 wrote:Interesting 1st post.
That's because it was my first issue trying to get registered. :)

Thanks,
Scott
What emails are you expecting or trying to receive from this forum? As a brand new member and without any posts in other topics, what do you expect to receive?

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:12 pm
by thehemi
mojo84 wrote:What emails are you expecting or trying to receive from this forum? As a brand new member and without any posts in other topics, what do you expect to receive?
I did not receive the "click here to activate your account" email. I had to go to nerdy extremes to get it from the logs.

I'm just mentioning a configuration issue that has caused me an issue and maybe affects others. Sorry if this offends folks?

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:20 pm
by mojo84
thehemi wrote:
mojo84 wrote:What emails are you expecting or trying to receive from this forum? As a brand new member and without any posts in other topics, what do you expect to receive?
I did not receive the "click here to activate your account" email. I had to go to nerdy extremes to get it from the logs.

I'm just mentioning a configuration issue that has caused me an issue and maybe affects others. Sorry if this offends folks?

Thanks,
Scott
Not offended. Just curious since you said you couldn't get emails but you were obviously able to post.

Re: Cannot Receive Forum Emails

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:53 pm
by Acronym Esq
thehemi wrote:
mojo84 wrote:What emails are you expecting or trying to receive from this forum? As a brand new member and without any posts in other topics, what do you expect to receive?
I did not receive the "click here to activate your account" email. I had to go to nerdy extremes to get it from the logs.
I'm just mentioning a configuration issue that has caused me an issue and maybe affects others.
Yep. Me too. My nerdy extreme was to google-fu a mod's email address and contact them directly.

I think thehemi has identified the problem. Should be an easy fix.

acronym 11/14/2017 8:51 PM