I find it surprising that the remote server admins report no connections from you. Their server answered your TCP connection with "220 mailforward.freeparking.com ESMTP Exim 4.41 #1 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:22:20 -0500". I would expect _something_ in their logs. But, perhaps they don't log information until it gets to a certain point in the SMTP session. What I can tell you is that after making the connection to their server, them sending you a banner and you sending an EHLO statement, the network connection between you and them dies. Considering the short interval at which this occurs (less than a minute) this looks more like a 'cut' than a timeout.
Perhaps they're intentionally denying connections from your IP or from MUA/MTA's that send 'mail.washougal.k12.wa.us' in their EHLO/HELO. The 'trying PDT' is probably because you've got 'PDT' configured as your gateway at 'localhost'. The purpose of this field is to define an alternate server through which IMail should attempt to send email if it cannot deliver it on its own. Have a good one, Christian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lester Brown Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Mail server connections mysteriously dropping I'm having trouble sending e-mail to several domains for some reason. I've talked to the people on the receiving end, and they say that their mail server isn't recording any connections in their server log at all. Here is a snip from our server logs of a transaction to one of the servers we're not able to send to. We're able to send and receive normally to most other people, though, so I'm not sure why these connections aren't going through. 11:09 08:22 SMTPD(eeae00390080f3f5) [169.204.236.4] connect 169.204.236.240 port 4709 11:09 08:22 SMTPD(eeae00390080f3f5) [169.204.236.240] EHLO LesP4 11:09 08:22 SMTPD(eeae00390080f3f5) [169.204.236.240] MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11:09 08:22 SMTPD(eeae00390080f3f5) [169.204.236.240] RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11:09 08:22 SMTPD(eeae00390080f3f5) [169.204.236.240] E:\IMAIL\spool\Deeae00390080f3f5.SMD 10202 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) processing E:\IMAIL\spool\Qeeae00390080f3f5.SMD 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) Trying ThomasFallonArchitect.com (0) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) Connect ThomasFallonArchitect.com [207.61.90.202:25] (1) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) 220 mailforward.freeparking.com ESMTP Exim 4.41 #1 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:22:20 -0500 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) >EHLO mail.washougal.k12.wa.us 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) >HELO mail.washougal.k12.wa.us 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) SMTP_DELIV_FAILED 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) >QUIT 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) Trying PDT (1) 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) ERR no address "PDT" 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) requeuing E:\IMAIL\spool\Qeeae00390080f3f5.SMD R0 T1 11:09 08:22 SMTP-(eeae00390080f3f5) finished E:\IMAIL\spool\Qeeae00390080f3f5.SMD status=3 Anyone have any ideas? I've applied all of the updates to iMail and we're at version 8.13. TIA, Lester Brown Network Support Specialist Washougal School District 112-6 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
