Well, for some reason it seems that the remote server is never sending the
DATA command (which is what is used to actually pass the email message to
your server).
You could use ethereal (
www.ethereal.com) to capture all traffic coming in
(just make sure you put a filter on it, so you're only capturing data on
port 25!)
Cheers
Ken
[quoted text, click to view] "T. Garay" <moc.etluhcS-noirehpS@yhtomiT> wrote in message
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> Lately we've seen issues where emails are delayed as much as 6 hours
> or never arrive.
>
> I get a complaint and start going through the logs.
>
> The MS SMTP server appears to only record one side of the
> conversation. I see the email in question trying to come in but it
> doesn't make it and I can't find any errors (event log or SMTP log) to
> indicate why.
>
> Basically, I see something similar to the following:
>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/21/2004 7:43:38 PM 250 HELO
> smtp1.sender.com
> smtp1.sender.com 10/21/2004 7:43:38 PM 250 MAIL
> FROM:<somebody@sender.com>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/21/2004 7:43:39 PM 250 RCPT
> TO:<me@mydomain.com>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/21/2004 7:43:49 PM 240 QUIT
> smtp1.sender.com
>
> Sometimes, after several attempts, then it will show up like:
>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/22/2004 5:28:44 PM 250 HELO
> smtp1.sender.com
> smtp1.sender.com 10/22/2004 5:28:44 PM 250 MAIL
> FROM:<somebody@sender.com>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/22/2004 5:28:45 PM 250 RCPT
> TO:<me@mydomain.com>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/22/2004 5:28:57 PM 250 DATA
> <2004102217160100000000@WinSockMail>
> smtp1.sender.com 10/22/2004 5:28:58 PM 240 QUIT
> smtp1.sender.com
>
> I have no idea why it's not sending the data. The email does not make
> it to the Exchange server & the user's mailbox unless the DATA entry
> is in there.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or perhaps tools that I can use to record the
> whole conversation for each email connection that comes in??
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Tim
>
