Hi, I've posted messages on this list occassionally over the years, and I've never seen anything like this.
I posted a message to the IMail forum, and subsequently saw two messages: my message posted to the group, plus a bounce message, which is quoted below. How is this possible? I know sometimes people turn on auto-responders, but in that case, such a person should be automatically replying to every message posted to the list. Instead, I see just this one message posted as a response to only my message. I have no idea who [EMAIL PROTECTED] is, and it wasn't any part of my "To" line. So what's goign on? Ben BC Web ********************************** This is the response message ********************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "System Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:16 PM Subject: Undeliverable: Fw: [IMail Forum] stack connect fail tracing > Your message > > To: > Subject: Fw: [IMail Forum] stack connect fail tracing > Sent: Wed Jun 08 06:16:02 2005 > > > did not reach the following recipient(s): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed Jun 08 06:16:02 2005 > > The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message > was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient > directly to find out the correct address. > <lacmail1.adir.com #5.1.1> > ********************************** This message came to me with two attachments: the first is file ATT01467.dat which contains this: ********************************** Reporting-MTA: dns; lacmail1.adir.com Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 X-Supplementary-Info: lacmail1.adir.com X-Display-Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************* The second attachment was a copy of my original message. Here is that message, including headers: ************************************* Thread-Topic: [IMail Forum] stack connect fail tracing Received: from mail pickup service by lacmail1.adir.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:16:00 -0700 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from list.ipswitch.com (list.ipswitch.com [156.21.1.21]) by mail.lacuracao.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j590BrDe032566 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:11:58 -0700 Received: from bcw4.bcwebhost.net [66.224.41.5] by list.ipswitch.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.20) id A9220164; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:19:30 -0400 Received: from bernieserv [66.224.41.4] by bcw4.bcwebhost.net (SMTPD32-7.15) id A76E316500F8; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:12:14 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Imail Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: [IMail Forum] stack connect fail tracing Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:12:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_050F_01C56C55.9936E9E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.224 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 X-RBL-Warning: CMDSPACE: Space found in RCPT TO: command. X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [66.224.41.4] X-Spam-Tests-Failed: CMDSPACE, SPFPASS, LOCALCMDSPACE [-6] X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: <[email protected]> Status: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jun 2005 01:16:00.0671 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC2FEAF0:01C56C90] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_050F_01C56C55.9936E9E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Strangely, I'm not sure this message got through, precisely because of = the problem it describes. So I'll repeat it and watch for it. Sorry if = you see this twice. Ben ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Imail Admin=20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:01 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] stack connect fail tracing Hi, We had a problem with the "stack connect fail" error recently. This is, = according to the archives, related to being unable to resolve the domain = name for SMTP delivery of messages. Our IMail server (running 7.15) = uses our own DNS server as its primary server. It also has listed a = secondary DNS server (these are listed by IP address in the = services/SMTP tab) for an upstream ISP. I'm trying to track down why = this problem is occuring, or the extent to which it is "normal". I rebooted our DNS server, even though the event log showed no problems, = and I added some new (and hopefully more responsive) additional DNS = servers to the IMail/SMTP setting. The number of connect fails has gone = down from every few minutes (as it was yesterday) to once every twenty = minutes or so. My questions are: 1. Is this a reasonable number? =20 2. How do I trace where the IP resolution fails? 3. Does IMail use all of the DNS servers for which it is configured, or = only some? Any advice would be helpful. We've been thinking about replacing our = DNS server, but we're a pretty small operation and I'm not sure that = that server is really all that busy. Thanks, Ben Bednarz BC Web ------=_NextPart_000_050F_01C56C55.9936E9E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"; xmlns:o =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.3790.218" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE>@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in = 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-STYLE: normal; = FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: = personal-compose } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=3DEN-US vLink=3Dpurple link=3Dblue bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Strangely, I'm not sure this message = got through,=20 precisely because of the problem it describes. So I'll repeat it = and watch=20 for it. Sorry if you see this twice.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ben</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20 <DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] = href=3D"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Imail=20 Admin</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A [EMAIL PROTECTED] href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED] om</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:01 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> [IMail Forum] stack connect fail = tracing</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>We had a problem with the "stack = connect fail"=20 error recently. This is, according to the archives, related to = being=20 unable to resolve the domain name for SMTP delivery of messages. = Our IMail=20 server (running 7.15) uses our own DNS server as its primary = server. It=20 also has listed a secondary DNS server (these are listed by IP address = in the=20 services/SMTP tab) for an upstream ISP. I'm trying to track down = why this=20 problem is occuring, or the extent to which it is "normal".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I rebooted our DNS server, even though = the event=20 log showed no problems, and I added some new (and hopefully more = responsive)=20 additional DNS servers to the IMail/SMTP setting. The number of = connect=20 fails has gone down from every few minutes (as it was yesterday) to once = every=20 twenty minutes or so. My questions are:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1. Is this a reasonable number? = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2. How do I trace where the IP = resolution=20 fails?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>3. Does IMail use all of the DNS = servers for which=20 it is configured, or only some?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any advice would be helpful. = We've been=20 thinking about replacing our DNS server, but we're a pretty small = operation and=20 I'm not sure that that server is really all that busy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ben Bednarz</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>BC Web</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_050F_01C56C55.9936E9E0-- 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/
