Local mail server configuration is reasonably correct. The HELO domain setting is a valid FQDN and looking up that FQDN gives the IP address of the mail server.
I deliver mail from other users to Yahoo (no one else on my server sends email to this particular user's place of business) without problem. I'm just looking for a way to prove that the mail isn't simply vanishing into thin air on *my* server - once I can confirm it successfully left my server, then I can start worrying about what happens to it on the remote server. Ivo Smits wrote: > This sounds like hotmail-policy. E-mail that may be spam, can just vanish, > even when it has been accepted by their SMTP server, and there was no > failure report at all. > What can you do about this? I still don't really know. You should at least > check that the HELO-domain is valid, does not contain something that looks > like your IP address, and points back to the IP of the mailserver. > > Ivo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <xmail@xmailserver.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:13 PM > Subject: [xmail] Vanishing mails? > > >> I have a user who is telling me that they attempted to send email to >> various places and the emails are simply vanishing. One of the places is >> to the place they work, and another was to Yahoo. >> >> I've looked in my logs, and I see the mail coming into my server >> (verified by the SMTP logs showing the sender as my local user and the >> recipient as the remote user), and I see the SMAIL entry showing the >> mail being delivered by SMTP - but I don't see any way to confirm that >> the mail was actually delivered to Yahoo or to their work machine. >> >> Where would I look to verify delivery? Does the fact that there's an >> entry in the SMAIL log with delivery method "SMTP" mean that the >> delivery attempt to the remote server was successful (meaning that there >> was no SMTP error generated during the protocol session and there was no >> DNS lookup or other transmission difficulty - I understand that mailbox >> delivery on the other side cannot be guaranteed)? >> >> Any ideas on where to look would be appreciated. >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
