Running Xmail 1.24 on Windows 2000 Server. I have enough traffic that logging all the mail sessions would become quite disk intensive. I think I'd rather pursue other alternatives before resorting to that (if I need to go that route, I can always crank up ethereal and just sit and watch...)
Ivo Smits wrote: > What OS do you use on your mailserver? > You can use tcpdump (on linux) or WireShark (windows and linux) to capture > the SMTP session with the remote SMTP server, and see all the response codes > and commands from both sides. > > Ivo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <xmail@xmailserver.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:51 PM > Subject: [xmail] Re: Vanishing mails? > > >> 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] > > - 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]
