On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:21:28PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> N J wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here are the lines from my mainlog file.
> > It is saying that it completed but absolutely nothing is showing up.
> >
> > 2008-02-16 22:20:25 1JQUSP-0005qW-Nc <= nobody@???
> > U=nobody P=local S=397
> > 2008-02-16 22:20:51 1JQUSP-0005qW-Nc => cheese_o@???
> > R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.244.8]
> > 2008-02-16 22:20:51 1JQUSP-0005qW-Nc Completed
>
> You're sending to a hotmail account. Mail simply never arriving, even
> after being successully handed off, isn't unusual when dealing with
> hotmail. Did you check your spam folders?
You might also want to enable the +smtp_confirmation log selector. This adds
the remote server's response (e.g. their queue ID) to your logs. This
information can be useful when tracking the progress of a message across
various MTAs (although I doubt whether hotmail, specifically, will be that
helpful). Useful in general though.
--
Dave Evans
http://djce.org.uk/
http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey
