On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:56:02AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >..
> >> Once it got to RR, it seemed to proceed ok the rest of the way,
> >> including emission from the list via east-coast-RR to west-coast-RR and
> >> sitting in the pop-server until you retrieved it at noon.
> > (It sat in the pop-server because I don't fetch mail regularly, only
> > when I actually want to read it.)
>
> Yes, I neglected to say "..as it is supposed to"
It sounds like I understand this part.
>
> >
> > This makes me curious whether my message spent the 4 hours waiting
> > on Sonya for RR to finish receiving it, or whether it spent 4 hours
> > in some spool or queue at RR before getting its first RR timestamp.
>
> Perhaps there's some clue in your /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages?
>
Yes, there's something in /var/log/maillog (a file which I've unfortunately
never looked at before in my life). If I'm interpreting the log
correctly, RR kept refusing the message because their DNS was down or
broken and couldn't resolve kernel-panic.org.
Another possibility is that even though their nameserver and mail relay
seem to be the same machine it couldn't resolve its own name or
an alias(??).
Here is the relevant part of the log, somewhat reformatted.
My attempts at explanation are in braces.
Jul 20 00:07:03 sonya sendmail[17006]: l6K772Za017006:
from=scs, size=616, class=0, nrcpts=2,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{I'm not sure what this was.}
Jul 20 00:07:48 sonya sendmail[17008]: l6K773ef017008:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=720, class=0, nrcpts=2,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
{I'm not sure what this was.}
Jul 20 00:07:48 sonya sendmail[17006]: l6K772Za017006:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],
ctladdr=scs (501/501), delay=00:00:46, xdelay=00:00:45, mailer=relay,
pri=60470, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent (l6K773ef017008 Message accepted for delivery)
{mutt to sendmail?}
Jul 20 00:09:23 sonya sendmail[17010]: l6K773ef017008:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (501/501),
delay=00:02:00, xdelay=00:01:35, mailer=relay,
pri=60573, relay=orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com, dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Name server: orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com:
host name lookup failure
{RR DNS down; can't resolve kernel-panic.org?}
{2 more of these omitted}
Jul 20 02:50:23 sonya sendmail[17098]: l6K773ef017008:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (501/501),
delay=02:43:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=330573, relay=orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com, dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Name server: orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com:
host name lookup failure
{RR DNS still down; can't resolve kernel-panic.org?}
Jul 20 03:49:34 sonya sendmail[17103]: l6K773ef017008:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (501/501),
delay=03:42:11, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=relay,
pri=420573, relay=orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com. [66.75.160.20], dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent (l6KBGeIF013120 Message accepted for delivery)
{Message finally reaches RR.}
The header lines again for reference:
> X Received: from ms-smtp-01.socal.rr.com
> X (ms-smtp-01.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by sparkplug.kernel-panic.org
> X (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CDF97ACB for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> X Fri,
> X 20 Jul 2007 04:16:42 -0700 (PDT)
> X Received: from sonya.localdomain
> X (cpe-66-75-46-141.san.res.rr.com [66.75.46.141]) by
> X ms-smtp-01.socal.rr.com
> X (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6KBGeIF013120; Fri,
> X 20 Jul 2007 04:16:40 -0700 (PDT)
> X Received: from sonya.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
> X by sonya.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l6K773ef017008; Fri,
> X 20 Jul 2007 00:07:23 -0700
> X Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by sonya.localdomain
> (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit)
> X id l6K772Za017006; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:07:02 -0700
> X Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:07:02 -0700
> X From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X Subject: Re: The Greek Cell Phone Tapping Caper
> X In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Stewart Strait
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