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I'm running UW IMAP on my RH9 box. I have been sending and receiving with no problems up until this past weekend. I still send with no problems, but I'm not getting any mail. I telnetted to the imap port fine and my firewall hasn't changed at all, yet I can't receive any messages. One thing I DID notice was that I can receive it when I send it from the RH9 box itself, but not from anyone outside. Any thoughts?
If your TOS (Terms of Service) with them state that you are not allowed to run any servers (Web, mail, news, etc) then that's probably the case. Lots of ISP are now enforcing these policies.
I called them and they said they don't block those ports. Is there anything that would hold my mail and not deliever it to my mailbox? A lock or something?
This is starting to smell like a firewall issue. What to the logs have to say about your mail? (Not too sure where they are in RH) Could be in /var/log/maillog. look in /var/log for something obvious and see if you're getting mail.
actually I think it's what you mentioned before - a TOS issue. Even though the person said 'no' on the phone, I read the TOS and it said that Comcast users aren't allowed to set up their own e-mail servers, plus I triple-checked all the log files and there's nothing of note in them.
/me still can't figure out the reason for that policy.
I can more or less understand why they don't allow http/news/ftp servers (bandwidth) but does it make sense to stop incoming mail?
/me thinks not.
I don't use procmail, so I don't believe I'm using an MDA, but rather an MTA (sendmail). I think it's Comcast blocking it. Time to look for a better ISP I guess
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