My mail client is configured so that it always CC''s a copy of mails I send back to my mailbox. 99 times out of 100 this works. On just a couple of occasions - its failed - and computers being computers - always at the most inopportune times. Checking the logs afterwards - shows that not only was the mail sent to the respondent I was sending to - but that a copy was sent to my mailbox too - yet the mail is never there. Anyone got any ideas of why this might be happening - or got some suggestions of debug traces I could use? Just so you know - Exim4 server is at a hosting centre somewhere in London - I''m just connecting via ADSL - using our server as my mail relay. So there are no intervening mail servers between my client and our server. Thanks for any ideas. Regards Neil
> A shot in the dark: do you have anything that processes the > "delivered" > mail? For example, cyrus automatically deletes duplicate mails. If > your message is a reply to another one, and somehow gets (for example) > the same id, it might not get delivered all the way to you.No, there are no mail processors running at all. The mail simply gets dropped into my in-box and then should be available when my client connects to the pop3 server for collecting. The pop3 server gives the banner +OK Solid POP3 server ready <28290.1147807575@ns> The only thing I can think is that my connection (SMTP first, POP3 afterwards) is that actually, this is a client timing issue and nothing to do with Exim4 at all. Regards Neil p.s. Sorry, should have done a "Reply all" in the first place.
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0100, Neil Briscoe wrote:> My mail client is configured so that it always CC''s a copy of mails I > send back to my mailbox. > > 99 times out of 100 this works. > > On just a couple of occasions - its failed - and computers being > computers - always at the most inopportune times. > > Checking the logs afterwards - shows that not only was the mail sent to > the respondent I was sending to - but that a copy was sent to my mailbox > too - yet the mail is never there. >A shot in the dark: do you have anything that processes the "delivered" mail? For example, cyrus automatically deletes duplicate mails. If your message is a reply to another one, and somehow gets (for example) the same id, it might not get delivered all the way to you. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 ross@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062