[OT] e-mail problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:16 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:07:32 -0600
> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > > This makes no sense to me. If someone sending an e-mail to me gets
> > > the mail bounced back to them with a server time out error from the
> > > ISP,
> > > how could my router affect that? The router in question is a Linksys
> > > e3000. I called them too but they won't talk to me with sending them
> > > $s.
> > 
> > Are you running your own mailserver?  If not, and your email is being
> > handled by the ISP's mailserver and you merely run a mail client of
> > some kind to read your email, then what you have on your end has
> > nothing to do with the ISP's mailserver at all.
> 
> No, I'm just running the claws-mail client on this machine and my wife
> is running zimbra on her Windows 7 laptop. We've both had e-mails not
> arrive. 
> I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems
> when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my ISP
> that it is their problem?
> 
> Steve

On my router it is possible to configure things so the DHCP server is
the ISP's server instead of your router acting as the DHCP server . If
that is happening to you that might cause the problem you see, Make sure
your local lan addresses are being assigned by your router not the ISPs
server,