Hi Len, The SMTP debugging option is checked on our IMail Server, and has been for as long as I can remember. I sometimes wondered if that could be costing us a bit of a performance hit on the mail server - but we've never bothered to turn it off to see what would happen.
As far as logging goes, I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but we don't have the SysLog service running. IMail is just logging everything to the default sys*.txt log file. However, I did turn on the SysLog service a few days ago and set it to interact with the desktop. I spent about 15 minutes watching it log in real-time, every connection to msn.com failed with exactly the same error message (no more, no less) as the regular log showed. Depressed, I turned the dang thing off and went back to the 'ol drawing board. Best regards, Julie Silverman Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Network Geek ---------------------------------------------------------- Acme Internet http://www.acmeinternet.com voice: 952-928-8828 Microsoft Certified Partner ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 19:39:41 -0600 > >>Anyway, I'm in the process of cracking open our SMTP logs from earlier >>this week... approx 30-50 meg a day - so bear with me! I'll try to make >>some 'before' and 'after' comparisons and I'll post the results to the >>list. Hopefully this will help some of the other IMail Admins who are >>having problems sending to certain domains. > >what's weird is > >12:01 01:15 SMTP-(00000168) Trying msn.com (0) >12:01 01:15 SMTP-(00000168) Connect msn.com [207.46.181.13:25] (1) >12:01 01:15 SMTP-(00000168) >12:01 01:15 SMTP-(00000168) SMTP_DELIV_FAILED >12:01 01:15 SMTP-(00000168) >QUIT > >one doesn't even see the MSN banner: > ># telnet 207.46.181.13 25 >Trying 207.46.181.13... >Connected to smtp-gw-4.msn.com. >Escape character is '^]'. >220 cpimssmtpa69.msn.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: >5.0.2195.5600 ready at Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:35:20 -0800 > >and Imail only logs to the minute, not to the second or msec, so we can't >see how long the connect/disconnect is. > >I wonder if turning IMail SMTP debugging would have shown a little bit more? > >Len > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
