Can send mail out from user, but no receiving

[ttoomey]

I've recently setup sendmail on a debian server and I'm having trouble getting the server to receive and distribute the mail properly. I can send mail out from this account and I can properly connect to the server and look for mail, but it seems as though the server is having trouble receiving mail and distributing it to the proper inboxes, when I send mail to the server (for example if I mail somethign to ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org) I get it bounced back to me with a temporary server error, here's what's in the email I get:

**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************

The original message was received at Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:38:31 -0500
from 216-145-252-226.dls.net [216.145.252.226]

----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
<ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org>... Deferred: Connection refused by therichmondinstitute.org.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old



Reporting-MTA: dns; server1.ydnt.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:38:31 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; therichmondinstitute.org
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:36:01 -0500
Will-Retry-Until: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:38:31 -0500



Subject:
test
From:
Tim Toomey <ttoomey@ydnt.com>
Date:
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:27:59 -0500
To:
ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org

testing300

--
-Tim Toomey
ttoomey@ydnt.com


This is the first time I've setup a mailserver but as far as I can see I have it setup properly, when I login to the mail account it shows 0 meessages. Does anyone know what I can do or what may be wrong?

 

[ttoomey]

update*****

I somehow managed to not have sendmail started up properly, it is now started and I get emails bounce back immediatly with this message:

The original message was received at Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:14:23 -0500
from server1.ydnt.com [209.61.173.254] (may be forged)

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org>
(reason: User unknown)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
ttoomey: Mailbox does not exist
550 5.1.1 <ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org>... User unknown



Reporting-MTA: dns; debianserver.ydnt.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; server1.ydnt.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:14:23 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; ttoomey@debianserver.ydnt.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 67
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:14:23 -0500



Subject:
test
From:
Tim Toomey <ttoomey@ydnt.com>
Date:
Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:11:44 -0500
To:
ttoomey@therichmondinstitute.org

testing again after good config

--
-Tim Toomey
ttoomey@ydnt.com



I have created the user ttoomey on the linux box and I was fairly sure there was a mailbox configured but not positive, if anyone can help I'd appreciate it!!!!