> >Then I'm back to not having an explanation as to why a certain percentage of > >outbound mail from my server gets rejected by the receiving mail server. > > That's an easy one. :) > > When you have an E-mail that gets rejected by the remote mailserver, just > check your IMail SMTP log file to see what happened. > > -Scott
Here's an example entry from from my SMTP log file from this morning that highlights the problem. It seems that 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address is the error that keeps happening. 07:12 00:14 SMTPD(queue run) 480 0 14 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) d:\IMail\spool\Q2d7e005600fc523a.SMD 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) processing d:\IMail\spool\Q2d7e005600fc523a.SMD 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) Trying sagestone.com (0) 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) Connect sagestone.com [63.236.237.239:25] (1) 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) 220 bacon.sagestone.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.4453 ready at Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:06:50 -0400 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) >EHLO mail.cws-gr.biz. 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) >HELO mail.cws-gr.biz. 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) SMTP_DELIV_FAILED 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) >QUIT 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) 221 2.0.0 bacon.sagestone.com Service closing transmission channel 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) requeuing d:\IMail\spool\Q2d7e005600fc523a.SMD R0 T7 07:12 00:14 SMTP-(0000086C) finished d:\IMail\spool\Q2d7e005600fc523a.SMD status=3 Rob Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
