On 10/29/2010 2:39 PM, James T Brown wrote:
> I don't think this was impacting just mail coming from "outside" of
> MSU... I seem to have lost some mail as well - messages from an
> internal box was delivering mail outside ok, but the messages sent
> to my MSU Mail Account never made it. The logs mentioned that the
> mail was delivered, but never arrived in my Inbox.
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> Just sent a couple of test messages and all appears to be operating
> normally now. Probably related to the fix discussed below, but
> again, this was from a box on the MSU domain, not from the "outside".
>
My speculation is that by outside they really mean outside the main
mail.msu.edu stuff. I know for a fact stuff from other msu.edu
addresses (like my server) were not getting through.
Now, that said, I've actually seen a couple of those emails from earlier
show up, so maybe they didn't get completely lost after all.
Gary
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> Jim
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>> On 10/29/2010 2:16 PM, Bill Wheeler wrote:
>>> We're noticing the same thing you are, Gary. Whatever is going on
>>> seems
>>> to 'mask' our MX records, but not those for msu.edu. Our MX records
>>> can
>>> be seen from on campus, but not from off campus. A records appear
>>> viewable from anywhere.
>>
>> Supposedly the problem is now fixed. Our other IT guy here chatted
>> with the ATS people, and they've eventually figured out "Had a
>> problem with one of the filters on the mail coming in from "outside"
>> MSU. The filter was fixed around 1:30 and mail has been flowing
>> since then.".
>>
>> Now, that doesn't really sound like something like what you're
>> describing, with MX issues. I actually had no problem with mail all
>> morning on a non mail.msu.edu system, it was just mail trying to go
>> *to* the main msu email servers.
>>
>> Of course, that also sounds like anything that came in that never
>> made it was probably lost forever.
>>
>> Gary
>>> --Bill.
>>> ----------------
>>> Bill Wheeler, Systems Administrator
>>> Michigan State University Libraries
>>> [log in to unmask] (517)884-0882
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:05 -0400, Gary Schrock wrote:
>>>> On 10/29/2010 11:49 AM, Jon Galbreath wrote:
>>>>> There's been an ongoing network issue with routers for the last
>>>>> day or so. http://servicestatus.msu.edu/status_detail.php?id=5062
>>>>> It might be related.
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I thought about that, but it does seem to actually get to the
>>>> msu
>>>> mail servers (I can see the delivery on my mail server), and I would
>>>> have thought by that point it'd be beyond routing problems.
>>>>
>>>> (Oops, didn't send this out when I thought I did. More seems to be
>>>> getting through now than before, but nothing old that went in has come
>>>> through yet.)
>>>>
>>>>> Jon Galbreath
>>>>> MCSE/Security+
>>>>> Systems Administrator
>>>>> International Studies and Programs
>>>>> Ph: 517-884-2144
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Gary Schrock [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:48 AM
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: [MSUNAG] mail.msu.edu email getting lost?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody else noticing this morning that mail to msu email
>>>>> addresses isn't necessarily getting through? (Of course, it means
>>>>> you folks might not get this either :) ).
>>>>>
>>>>> Mail sent from the webmail to ones self seems to get through
>>>>> immediately fine. Mail sent from an external source seems to be
>>>>> disappearing into a void most of the time (we've seen a few seem
>>>>> to get through, but most doesn't seem to be arriving).
>>>>>
>>>>> From the sending side, I can tell that the msu mail servers
>>>>> have received it immediately without any problem. I just don't
>>>>> know if there's some sort of massive internal slowdown going on,
>>>>> or if it's just getting lost?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>>
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