Bogi said: > Ok > I need a bit more info then that. smtp is a direct protocoll, it either > delivers or bounces there is no third option once it gets to sending. > cheers > Szemir
Not necessarily, a misconfigured server could easily just "drop" the email. If it did that there wouldn't be a bounce and there wouldn't be a delivery, makes it hard to troubleshoot. Cheers, -- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resume: http://www.thelauders.net/resume/ Gentoo Linux Powered "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein > On Friday 04 July 2003 10:01, you wrote: >> Hi >> Some of our emails from / to one of our suppliers in >> Germany are not getting through. >> Looking at the headers of the ones that have arrrived >> show no delays of more than a few seconds except >> in the internal server at the other end where it is >> sometimes as much as 12 minutes. >> Could this indicate a problem at their end and >> is there anything else I can do to track the problem? >> The mails are not bouncing they just get dropped somewhere. >> >> Thanks >> Graham > >
