[Novalug] E-Mail Mysteries

[Dan Arico]

Perhaps someone could explain what's going on and suggest how I can go 
about straightening out this problem. I have no idea where to start 
looking for the problem.

One item that probably matters: My domain is hosted at Speakeasy and I 
don't maintain my own mailserver.

Problem #1 - This one has been fixed in the sense that it has gone away, 
but I'd still like to have some idea of what the problem was. I was 
dealing with a company in Maryland. For two years, e-mail worked 
perfectly. Abruptly, their e-mail to me just disappeared - no bounce, no 
error messages. It was just gone. They were able to send to my gmail 
account so we had a workaround. Six weeks later, the problem went away 
and it has worked perfectly since.

Problem #2 - This is a current problem. A company in New York is unable 
to send anything to me. This time, they get an error message that the 
process timed out without being able to send. I can send to them and 
they are able to send to other addresses not on my domain.

Dan Arico

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