Jerry Baker wrote: > I just discovered this nasty bug. It cost me 5 days of outgoing email. > Mozilla pretended to send the outgoing messages when, in fact, they were > never sent. Although the situations where this might occur are probably > relatively rare, the severe consequences of this bug made me want to > post this warning. > > When this bug happens to you there is no way to know that something > wrong has occurred. There is no indication that something has failed > until all of your contacts start asking why you haven't emailed them in > a few days or weeks. Even then, you might not ever be able to know what > is happening. >
Note that this is also probably a bug of some sort in microsoft's mail server. I just tried to relay through a postfix server and got an error saying that relaying was prohibited and through an exim server where I got a connection refused(my only basis for thinking exim was running is that cron was running and exim is the installed MTA) error message
