Super - Thanks - I restarted James and noticed one message went out successfully to Yahoo.
The puzzling thing is that I tried sending another one, and there's nothing in the log for it. All I see are attempts to send mail to the hotmail account... It almost looks like the hotmail attemps are blocking other mail from going out. I looked in james/var/mail/outgoing/ and there are a lot of FileObjectStores there. I imagine these are messages and that they should disappear once they are sent. I'm tempted to delete all the messages files in outgoing to see whether it fixes anything, but I also want to isolate any possible bugs that might be happening. Any ideas on how to best proceed? Thanks, - Ole --- "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to go about confirming > > that mail sent via James actually was sent? > > The Mailet log will have messages about it having > been sent successfully. > > > 15/10/06 11:45:56 INFO James.Mailet: > RemoteDelivery: > > Could not connect to SMTP host: 65.54.245.8, port: > 25; > > nested exception is: > > java.net.ConnectException: connection to > 65.54.245.8 timed out > > Like that's a surprise ... eventually you should get > through. It brings a > wry smile to see this happening to Microsoft, since > they are the primary > cause of problems on the Internet. What is likely > happening is that their > servers are temporarily overwhelmed by connections > from the many millions of > MS-Windows spambots made possible by Microsoft's > meticulous attention to > security. > > It has gotten to the point where legitimate SMTP > connections are hidden in > the noise from botnets. My server and the ASF > servers get about the same > number of connection attempts per day, despite the > fact that mine gets less > than 1% of the legitimate e-mail volume of the ASF. > The botnet connects are > the base background noise in the network. > > We could lower spam to a fraction immediately by > simply requiring ISPs to > block port 25 from DHCP connections, and forcing all > DHCP users to go > through their ISP's mail relay, or though a VPN/ssh > to some other mail > gateway, either of which should implement anti-spam > measures. > > > INFO smtpserver: SMTP Service connection backlog > is: 5 > > > Does it mean that there are five messages waiting > to go out? > > No. Please Google for information on TCP/IP > connection backlog. > > --- Noel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
