I'm sorry for the title description, it was the best I could think of lol.
OK, my problem is that the company I work for use a Virtual SMTP server which runs under IIS7. We have a number of customers who are saying they don't receive our emails.
We've looked in the logs and can see the following:-
Code:
2010-05-17 15:34:44 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250+2.6.0++<83B9F3F3FAFF4D119158C5F75EBFF919@domain.local>+Queued+mail+for+delivery 0 0 84 0 5953 SMTP - - - -
xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address of the 3rd party email server.
My question is:-
Where is this "Queued for delivery" message coming from?
Is it OUR email server unable to deliver the email or is it the 3rd party email server telling us it's received the email but has queued it to delivery it "internally"?
The full conversation is shown below FYI:
xx.xx.xx.xx = 3rd party email server IP address
yy.yy.yy.yy = Our email server IP address
Code:
2010-05-17 15:34:37 yy.yy.yy.yy MPLPRPR05 SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 10.0.10.13 0 RCPT - +TO:+<recipient@domain.co.uk> 250 0 37 35 0 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 RCPT - TO:<recipient@domain.co.uk> 0 0 4 0 125 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250+2.1.5+recipient@domain.co.uk+ 0 0 35 0 172 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 220+********************************************************************************************************** 0 0 110 0 31 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 EHLO - MPLWSPR03.domain.local 0 0 4 0 31 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250-domain.co.uk+Hello+[yy.yy.yy.yy] 0 0 37 0 78 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 MAIL - FROM:<sender@domain.com> 0 0 4 0 78 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250+2.1.0+sender@domain.com....Sender+OK 0 0 48 0 125 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 RCPT - TO:<recipient@domain.co.uk> 0 0 4 0 125 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250+2.1.5+recipient@domain.co.uk+ 0 0 35 0 172 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 DATA - - 0 0 4 0 172 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:37 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 354+Start+mail+input;+end+with+<CRLF>.<CRLF> 0 0 44 0 219 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:44 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 250+2.6.0++<83B9F3F3FAFF4D119158C5F75EBFF919@domain.local>+Queued+mail+for+delivery 0 0 84 0 5953 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:44 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionCommand SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 QUIT - - 0 0 4 0 5969 SMTP - - - -
2010-05-17 15:34:44 xx.xx.xx.xx OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MPLWSPR03 - 25 - - 221+2.0.0+domain.co.uk+Service+closing+transmission+channel 0 0 57 0 6047 SMTP - - - -
*Ip addresses have been changed to protect the guilty ... I mean innocent.