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webfors
12-05-2000, 11:39 AM
I haven't been receiving any email notifications from WHM lately. Is there a reason for this??

jtan15
12-05-2000, 04:59 PM
Someone recently posted a message about not receiving notification if they are on a VDI server. But it works for me, but I'm not with VDI.

BC
12-05-2000, 06:49 PM
Looks like we might have another vB bug biting us. Let me follow it up...

webfors
12-07-2000, 12:38 PM
Yeah, I'm on a vdi server. What difference would that make?

Still not getting any email notfications. :)

Tyme
12-07-2000, 01:49 PM
I originally made a post that when I had my mail going to multiple vdi hosts, I NEVER got the notifications. Even if I had it forwarding to two hosts at the same time, the VDI host NEVER got it. Since it was multiple hosts, I know it was not the hosting companies fault.

Now I have it going to a non-vdi host, and I SOMETIMES get the notification. Depends what forum it is. Did not get any notifications on this thread.

I have yet to receive ALL of them.

I am about to change it again to yet another server and see what happens.

webfors
12-07-2000, 08:28 PM
Ok, I changed my email address in my profile to my isp's. Could someone just respond to this thread to see if I get a notification.

Thanks.

Tyme
12-07-2000, 09:49 PM
Did you get any notification? I changed my email addy again, and still have not received anything. :(

webfors
12-11-2000, 12:35 AM
Hey everyone,

mystery solved. The default configuration on Exim (the mail server used by vdi/UUSA clients) is set to perform some sort of verification/validation on the sender of the email. This verification fails too often, resulting in not receiving your emails. The following entries in Exim.conf are the culprits.

sender_verify = true
sender_verify_fixup = true
headers_sender_verify = true

This was investigated by one of the Techs at UUSA and he fixed my problem by making the following changes in /etc/exim.conf:

sender_verify = false
sender_verify_fixup = true
headers_sender_verify = false

Since then I have been receiving all my emails again, and the "rejection" entries in /var/log/exim_rejectlog have ceased.