[email protected] wrote:
NetWin Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Every so often, there is a glitch in my outbound SMTP feed.
I just upgraded to DNEWS 5.7c1.
Before, local posts that could not be fed out to the SMTP server just appeared
in the spool subdirectory as ASCII plain text. I could then "rescue" them
by sending them to the shell account I use for reposting.
Or, I could just wait, and they would eventually be fed out to the SMTP
server when the connection was up.
But over the last day or so, there have been several local posts, and only
a few of them appeared as text files. And when the connection came up, only
those few got fed out.
Anybody have any suggestion as to where I can find the missing ones?
It sounds to me like they may be getting sent to the smtp server and then
dropped or it's possible it's dropping it due to the response from the smtp
server. Really you need to try and capture a failure in dnews.log so we can
see
if it's being rejected or accepted when it vanishes.
ChrisP.
I don't have the log available (I'm at home now), but I can tell you the
message said it couldn't connect.
I found out what the problem with the connection was: McAfee thought DNEWS was
a worm sending out spam e-mail. So it blocked the connection.
I corrected that, but I'm still wondering where the local posts went.
Is it still the case that each local post should create a local* file on the
spool subdirectory?
Ahh, Ok, I see what happenned now, since it connected successfully and then was
told the smtp server didn't want the message it gave up and deleted it. If the
connection had failed it would have kept trying and the local post files would
still exist.
You could add this setting:
post_log true
Then you would at least be able to rescue a post from the post.log file in this
situation.
Chrisp.
ChrisP.
