Today, while perusing through our system, I came across 24 files in a /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp directory. The files are named after various Internet hosts, and contain short error messages, such as:
--- 148 transport smtp: connect: Connection refused 172 transport smtp: no connection to remote SMTP server: 499 read error from remote SMTP process 172 transport smtp: no connection to remote SMTP server: 421 bcars568: PP cannot resolve your address. '204.250.31.220' (Help from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- I believe the source of most (possibly all) these messages is because our Internet service provider does not have reverse name lookup set up correctly for our IP address. My questions are: 1 - Does this mean that for each of these messages, an email message was lost, or does smail try an alternate path until the mail was sent successfully? 2 - Do these files serve any purpose now (such as does smail avoid sending mail through these hosts in the future?), or may I delete them? Thanks, Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: If these files may be deleted, perhaps it would be a good idea to include in a cron file within the smail package that periodically deletes old files from this directory.
