[buug] Sendmail/SMTP problem on FreeBSD

[D. L]

I am someone you will be able to help me.  I really do not know where 
else to go for guidance on an Issue that I am seeing with SMTP and/or 
POP3 on my box that is running Apache 1.3 on Free BSD.  In addition I 
am not that proficient in the Linux/Unix Environement.
 
 I have a SMTP and POP3 server running Apache 1.3 on FreeBSD.  I have 
been getting a complaint from an end user that his e-mail is not 
functioning properly.
 
 This end user can send mail out.  He is not receiving any messages 
 from the daemon indicating that it did not send successfully.  At 
this point he is assuming that the mail has been sent.  The problem 
is that the recipient never did get the message or when they do 
receive it they are unable to reply to it.
 
 For some reason they are prompted with an error indicating that the 
host (my mail server) cannot be found.  I find this funny because I 
have 50 other e-mail boxes/accounts on this server and no one else 
has mentioned any problems.
 
 I contacted my ISP and had them verify my MX records and DNS for my 
mail server and domain.  Everything appears to be correct.  With this 
in mind I tried sending and receiving e-mails from this account.  The 
same results occured.  I deleted and recreated the account in 
question and still the same result.
 
 Finally I created a test account using his first inital and the 
first 8 letters of his name.  This account functions properly.  I 
believe that his account is bad.  Aside from deleting it and 
recreating it on the server is there anything else I can do to fix 
this issue?  Your help is appreciated.
 
Thanks,
Don
miduckhunter at beer.com


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