You forgot :"Do the needful." *runs away*
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:02 PM, William Robbins <dangerw...@gmail.com>wrote: > I saw your message, just haven't had the time to reply...until now. > > Just quickly: I don't care about specific email addy's, but quantity of > recipients can play a part is all I meant. As far as any of my queries go > hey are only to highlight the thought process you should be on in basic > troubleshooting of this event. > > Basically you play "one of these things is not like the other" until your > song is done, and you have an idea of what happened and why. :) > > And yes, you likely are hallucinating. ;) > > - WJR > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 09:54, John Aldrich > <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > >> I replied from home this weekend, but when I got here, and looked at the >> messages I sent out, the bodies were blank. Does anyone else see that, or >> am >> I hallucinating? >> >> >> >> From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 12:26 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Email Problem >> >> You do realize, of course, that this error doesn't necessarily indicate a >> problem with your outbound mail server...right? >> >> Now then...from what I can garner from your typically sparse data...If you >> one-off these messages it works OK, it's only when he bulk mails...so do >> the >> end recipients ever get the message after waiting 72 hours, or have you >> never been able to wait that long? Do they ever get duplicates after 72 >> hours? >> >> How many recipients are we talking about anyway? 100, 1000, ONE MILLION >> USERS? Inquiring minds want to know. >> >> As to your salient question, where to start looking: >> >> How internet email works: http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/smtp.htm >> >> Understanding SMTP Error Messages: >> http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/smtp_error_code.htm >> >> - WJR >> >> 2011/9/3 John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> >> On Fri September 2 2011, you wrote: >> > Research the specific SMTP status code and message you are receiving >> > back. "Delayed" can mean different things. You/he received a specific >> > error message. Be specific with us, or look it up. >> > >> All I have is the following: >> <quote> >> Warning: message 1QyPNV-0000xd-UY delayed 72 hours >> >> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. >> A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its >> recipients after more than 72 hours on the queue on <SMTPSERVER> >> >> The message identifier is: 1QyPNV-0000xd-UY >> The subject of the message is: National Account-Paychex >> The date of the message is: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:33:24 -0400 >> >> The addresses to which the message has not yet been delivered are: >> [snip list of email addresses] >> No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for >> some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message >> remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, >> and when that happens, the message will be returned to you. >> </quote> >> >> Note that I created an Outlook Distribution list that contains all the >> email addresses in that list of recipients who had not yet received the >> message and sent them a message. Within 24 hours, all of them had >> confirmed >> that they had received the message from me. >> -- >> Thanks, >> John Aldrich >> Blueridge Industries >> IT Manager >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
