Re: [PLUG] Mail delivery issues?

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:05:59AM -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Anyone else having spotty mail delivery?  My main PLUG delivery seems to
> be getting about half the PLUG mail over the last few days (and only one
> message from Tues.)  I only noticed because I've been testing a mail
> archiver and it's getting a lot more PLUG mail than I am :)

Sounds like your SMTP server's been periodically unreachable by the
PLUG mail server (which doesn't mean that it's either your fault or
mct's; could just be networking in between).

You can ask (any) SMTP server to deliver messages it has queued for
your right away by telneting to port 25 and issuing a ETRN command,
provided you've greeted it with an EHLO (rather than just an HELO).
Like so:

humbug:~% host -t mx lists.phillylinux.org
lists.phillylinux.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mailq.netisland.net
lists.phillylinux.org mail is handled (pri=0) by mail.netisland.net
humbug:~% telnet mail.netisland.net 25
Trying 207.8.132.199...
Connected to mail.netisland.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 quint.netisland.net; ESMTP ready to Zork at Thu, 8 May 2003 10:15:01 -0400
EHLO humbug.cc3.com
250-quint.netisland.net Hello vpn.ccgroupnet.com [207.103.85.62] (may be forged), pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 50000000
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
ETRN uriel.eclipsed.net
250 2.0.0 Queuing for node uriel.eclipsed.net started

Hth...

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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