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Operating Systems AIX Debugging a "sendmail" issue Post 302345592 by neil_is_ere on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 04:07:45 PM

08-19-2009

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

Let's start with jimbob... smtp uses port 25, if jimbob.com is alive on that port this will show it:

Code:

ping -p 25 jimbob.com

Will definitely try that in the morning. Thought it was very odd not being able to ping it even though their web and mail (from outlook) was receiving traffic fine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

Do the emails to jimbob show up in the user's dead.letter file? If not, the problem is outside your sphere of control.

I sent a test email using sendmail yesterday, I'm not exactly sure about "dead.letter" but they were scanning their mail log files and they never seen any existence of the mail getting through (or even any activity from our domain).

Is there anything I can do to verify it is not at my end? Perhaps try to trace where the sendmail is taking my message in each hop and see where it drops off? I would like to know for sure it is leaving our space and is sent to them, if that makes sense. Just not sure how to go about doing this....

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