[Novalug] E-Mail Mysteries

[TGS]

Dan,

Do you want to share some of the details of you domain.

- chris

On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Dan Arico wrote:

> 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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