Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-24 Thread Dan McAllister
If you have a backup MX server, check the logs on *that *system. If they went into that system and were not forwarded to the main system for any reason, the main system will not have a record of it. (If you think about it, that only makes sense). Dan On 4/23/2014 9:46 PM, Unai Rodriguez

[qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-23 Thread Unai Rodriguez
Dear List, I have not seen on my INBOX/SPAM/JUNK folders at least 3 emails in the last 10 days or so. It is hard to verify for me whether this is true so from a system standpoint where do I start to check? I've grepped so far: /var/log/qmail/clamd/* /var/log/qmail/smtp/*

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-23 Thread Dan McAllister
The first place I would look is the SMTP and SEND log files. (Yes, there is a SEND log entry for inbound messages too -- they are just sent locally). If you know who they're supposed to be FROM, the SEND log will tell you if it was delivered... if it doesn't appear in the SEND log, check the

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-23 Thread Unai Rodriguez
I cannot find any traces of those emails in our system. If our backup MX had issues forwarding to the main, will QMT show it on the logs? I'm guessing that there might be cases where it won't even show up. Thank you so much for the replies On 2014-04-24 00:45, Dan McAllister wrote: The

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-23 Thread Unai Rodriguez
Dear List, Sorry, my bad. I found the problem (I was grepping the wrong @domain): qmail-smtpd: qq hard reject (qmail-dk: Cannot sign message due to invalid message syntax. (#5.3.0)): MAILFROM:anonymized_email_address RCPTTO:u...@sysbible.org A bit of googling brought me here: