Since a few months, IMail keeps orphaning mails in the spool directory and sending mails to the postmaster:
"Delivery Failure - Orphaned files in spool directory"
This means that mails are dropped without the user being notified, involving the postmaster to take corrective actions.
An orphaned file occurs when IMail cannot deliver an E-mail, and it cannot deliver the bounce either. For example, if I send an E-mail from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", how do you expect me to get a bounce message? It can't happen, the way that SMTP works.
In fact, no mailserver can deliver such an E-mail.
Who else has this problem?
Today, I updated from 8.14HF1 to 8.15. I think it is definitely time to think over my loyality with this product...
There is no problem. It is just how SMTP works. If you still aren't convinced, write a letter (not E-mail) with a fake address and fake return address, and see if the post office delivers it to you.
-Scott
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