On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Tracy wrote: > 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.
A record is logged inside the SMAIL log, *only if* the remote MTA returned a 2xx response at the end of the DATA transaction. At that point, it is the remote MTA responsibility to ensure the message is delivered through the next steps. - Davide - 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]
