Thank you Scott.
Sorry, both the sender and recipient addresses are valid... So much for jumping at conclusions.
It is a known problem of the SMTP service, crashing on certain unknown conditions.
- Quote from Ipswitch support case [T2004121004L6] ---------
ERR 005 - Send message thread exception handled Step = 54555659
We have a defect for this that testing and development are working on. I do not know how soon this will be fixed.
- End quote ---------
Again, is anybody else experiencing these errors on a regular base?
Marius
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Orphaned files in spool directory
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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