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Hi all,

I am running EFA-3.0.2.3 for my home system (just my family - not an international megacorporation), and over the past couple of weeks when a message with a high spam score arrives, it stops any further delivery of mail.
Looking at the stats on the Mail Watch page, the number of processed ...

It seems to be sorted now.

One of the Windows DNS servers had an issue with the reverse lookup zone for the subnet - it was missing the Exchange server address.
Re-replicated that zone and all has been working for a few days now.

I suspect that the root cause was the dodgy reverse lookup zone ...

More digging.
So, DNS on EFA box is configured to use 127.0.0.1 followed by the two Windows DNS servers.
EFA runs dnsmasq, which in turn forwards to the two Windows DNS servers.
Just had a situation where dnsmasq got stuck and was not resolving addresses.
(Resulting in the lookup errors and mail ...

Where is the recursive DNS setting?
I've looked through Webmin in Networking and the Postfix settings.
(Is it "Reject clients with no reverse hostname" in "SMTP Authentication And Encryption"? It's not set, btw)

I'm still getting occasional host lookup errors in the log and mails not being ...

Ah, /var/log/maillog seems to be the missing piece.

Found an error matching each failed-to-be-delivered message.
postfix/smtp[12288]: BFEDF6014E: to=<mark@(my.internet.domain)>, relay=none, delay=2.7, delays=2.7/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error ...

Hi all,

I have an EFA 3.0.0.8 system that has been behaving strangely lately.
(Been using EFA for years, it always just worked. Now I'm having probs and not sure where to look to troubleshoot)

Mail arrives from the internet.
Appears in the EFA MailScanner Recent list marked as clean.
The mail then ...