As far as I know, the SMAIL log will only show an SMTP-line for e-mails that where successfully delivered on the other end. So basically, the fact that your SMAIL log contains such a line, means that Yahoo accepted the email and that it was lost on their side...
Sincerely, Bart Mortelmans Tracy wrote: > 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] > > > - 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]
