I am with a Alabanza Host. I notice that some emails which I should have received seem to get lost in cyberspace for ever???

That means:

1. I don't receive them.
2. I don't receive any "bounced message" either (even till a week has gone by).

I have noticing this problem as I post this message. Emails which I am sending to myself just don't reach me. Neither do they bounce. Very strange!!!

NOTE: This is how my mail manager has been set up.

A. I have activated the forwarding service in my Alabanza's POP3 box to forward mail to my local ISP's POP3 account.

B. I have activated the default mail acount to send to the same local ISP's POP3 account.


What is strange is that I have noticed this happening before on one or two other occasions too during the last two or three weeks. I thus give up after trying for a while.

The next day when I test again... presto!!! Everything seems to be working just fine... I receive any test mails I send myself within a 30 to 60 seconds... which is super!!!!


Has such a similar temporary problem been plaguing anybody else here who has his or site hosted with a Alabanza host? Please let me know if yes.

Learner

A similar thing has been happening to me at, below10host.com, which is very very weird. :(

Also, according to netwhistle, my site is down 41% of the time. :( :(

Learner,

I had the same problem when I first got my account. There is a KB article 356 that explains the forwarding issue. Basically what is says is you can't have your e-mail forwarded twice. Lets say you want to check mail from sales and info. So you have sales forwarded to info and info forwards to your local ISP account(that won't work) You would have to either have both sales and info forward to you ISP account or have sales forward to info and info forward to info and set up your e-mail software to check the info account. That way both sales and info would be in the info account. I copied the KB article in case I just confused the issue. Her it is.

How the servers receive e-mail - Overview
When it arrives at the server that will actually handle the mail, and if that server is one of ours:

IF IT BELONGS ON YOUR SERVER:

1) It looks in "/etc/hosts" for the domain name

2) It looks in "/etc/mail/mailertable" for the procmail user name/home directory for the domain

3) It goes to "/home/$user/.procmailrc" and finds the ".procmailrc" file for that domain name (there might be several listed in the $user's main ".procmailrc" file if the user has additional domains)

4) It then goes to that '.procmailrc' file: "/home/$user/$domain-mail/.procmailrc"

5) It gets forwarded, saved, aliased, etc. according to the instructions in the ".procmailrc" file.

This last ".procmailrc" file has all the Mail Manager settings, including SmartList.

6)NOTE: If there is any reason that the mail can not be delivered to it's intended box, it will be saved by default to "/var/spool/mail/$user". All mail for a domain, no matter for which box, goes into "/var/spool/mail" under the domain owner's user name.
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Note that when mail is double-forwarded, it doesn't go through ".procmailrc" again, and so the mail manager settings don't work after one forwarding on the server.

If your mail manager setup is:
box1 --> box1, box2 <--[mail 'sent' to box1 is 'saved' in box1 and box2]
box2 --> box2, box3 <--[mail 'sent' to box2 is 'saved' in box2 and box3]
box1 --> box1, box2 <--[however, mail 'saved' in box2 is not 'saved' in box3, because this mail is 'saved' as a result of the mail processing of box1 and does not go through any mail processing at box2, just the carrying out of the 'save' directions from box1, which does not have any directions to 'save' in box3]

If you send to box1, it will not wind up in box3, because box2's ".procmailrc" file is never read so the instructions to save it also in box3 are never read.

Also, according to netwhistle, my site is down 41% of the time. :( :( [/B]

Kunal,

You may want to read that NetWhistle report again. If you got the same one I did, the beginning line said "40.1% of Netwhistle.com's monitored targets experienced a period of unavailability last week."

However, our site had NO errors, "Target name: WOOD INTERACTIVE reported no errors this week".

So, it was saying that 40.1% of their targetted sites had problems, but ours did not. It was a bit confusing, so perhaps you misunderstood it?

Yikes!! Thanx Scwood! I was just so pissed reading "40.1% of Netwhistle.com's monitored targets experienced a period of unavailability last week"

I dint care to read the rest of the message. Thanx a ton!

I dont have a problem with loosing mail i have a problem of getting the same email 16 or so times.