On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Chris Ditri
<groove...@brokensolstice.com> wrote:
> Then it is still a mystery to me, because there is no record in the
> log of the dell server even attempting a connection to mine.
You seem to still think that the connection was *from* Dell *to* you.
THAT IS WRONG. Dan even pointed that out in the message you quoted!
> Quoting Dan Harnett <dan...@harnett.name>:
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:57:26AM -0500, Chris Ditri wrote:
>>> Wait... I get it now. I did some more reading. The dell server is
>>> trying to send the message to my server encrypted, it gets to my
>>
>> The part of the log you pasted was an outgoing connection from your
>> server. <...>
Note: *outgoing* connection, *from* your server.
If you want to know more about the connection, you should grep that
same log file for the other log messages from that sm-mta process.
i.e., something like
grep 'sm-mta\[23903\]' /var/log/maillog.old
Philip Guenther
