On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Salmon Ronan <salmon.ronan@...> wrote:
>>As far as I can see this is correct - sendmail logs only the receivingYes, according to sendmail's logs, the email has been rejected. But in reality, the email has been accepted and forwarded (a few seconds later) on to another internal server.
>part of the transfer! (with the "from=..."). The reject happened if you
>have no line with message id p89DJieM009573 and with a " to=..." in your
>logfile. ;)
> Are you sure that the other server received it from this one instead of the original sender connecting to it directly? If you have a 2nd MX record it would be >
> normal for the sender to retry.
Arrgh! I have an other SMTP relay that has pretty much the same ip address as the first one, and I continuously misread the IP address in the logs.
Thanks, this was the key to my problem.
Ronan.