sendmail losing e-mails
Michael Velez
mikev777 at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 26 12:42:26 UTC 2005
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On Behalf Of Shaw, Marco
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:14 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: sendmail losing e-mails
> Also, sometimes an e-mail takes a long time to get delivered
> and will be
> received after an e-mail that had been sent at a later date.
With some mail servers, a queue may start to accumulate, when
a problem occurs. When the problem is cleared though, the mail
server may still keep these messages in the queue, but start
processing/sending along any new messages as they arrive.
There may be a job running at a specified interval running
a special command to clear any backed up queues.
> Can anybody guide me as to where I need to look? Is this my
> system doing
> this or could it be my ISP holding up these messages for fear
> they are spam
> (which they are not)?
Is it possible that some certain keywords are flagged, and the
email marked as spam?
Might want to run a tcpdump to see the SMTP commands go back
and forth.
Marco
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Marco,
Thanks for the response.
Well, there shouldn't be any flagged keywords, as for the moment, the
e-mails only contain the date and the words "The End". All e-mails are the
same so I don't see why one gets flagged and the others don't.
Could it be the specific SMTP server that I actually log into that does
this? I see from /var/log/maillog that the IP address of the SMTP server is
different each time.
How do I run a tcpdump? And what am I looking for when I do this?
Thanks,
Michael
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