first of all thanks for your great service! The below issue refers to the domain 'deckfour.org' which is registered under user id 'kingfries' on your system.
I have experienced a power failure this afternoon, due to which my mail server went down. After that some 10 messages were buffered on your backup mail servers, which I manually tried to dequeue using the web form provided by you.
During that, I monitored my sendmail log, which showed the following messages:
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Oct 17 17:50:10 nina sm-mta[8658]: j9HFoAcI008658: mail2.rollernet.us [66.224.163.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 17:58:39 nina sm-mta[32444]: j9HFwdpa032444: mail.rollernet.us [208.11.75.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 17:58:53 nina sm-mta[32041]: j9HFwr1Z032041: mail2.rollernet.us [66.224.163.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 17:58:53 nina sm-mta[2202]: j9HFwr71002202: mail2.rollernet.us [66.224.163.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 17:58:58 nina sm-mta[20990]: j9HFwweY020990: mail.rollernet.us [208.11.75.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 18:10:45 nina sm-mta[9472]: j9HGAjEg009472: mail.rollernet.us [208.11.75.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 18:10:49 nina sm-mta[16473]: j9HGAnr0016473: mail2.rollernet.us [66.224.163.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Oct 17 18:10:50 nina sm-mta[18980]: j9HGAoOX018980: mail2.rollernet.us [66.224.163.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
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deferred (connect to deckfour.org [85.145.80.56]: read timeout)
My question to you is:
- What does the message in your logs mean ('deferred'), has my mail gone to /dev/null or is it still caught in some buffer? (I have positively not received mail from your servers).
- Are there specific options in the sendmail configuration that I may have missed?
Sorry if this is a newbie issue, but I am not too familiar with sendmail setup and mail backup so far.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Chris