Re: [Hampshire] not getting mail out of a server

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Author: Hugo Mills
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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5822b100.hantslug.org.uk.8857': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Thu Mar 11 16:11:01 2010 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:07:02PM +0000, Victor Churchill wrote:
> On 11 March 2010 16:04, Martin A. Brooks <martin@???> wrote:
> > On Thu, March 11, 2010 15:44, Victor Churchill wrote:
> >> 2010-03-11 15:17:55 1Npk95-0004PG-4w <= www-data@???

                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is your mail ID


> >> U=www-data P=local S=819 id=0c4d81be0f925085ea365866e2555d25@the-host
> >> 2010-03-11 15:17:56 1Npk95-0004PG-4w => me@??? R=dnslookup
> >> T=remote_smtp H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [209.85.211.83]
> >> 2010-03-11 15:17:56 1Npk95-0004PG-4w Completed

                                          ^^^^^^^^^ This means it's been accepted by the machine on the other end, job done.


> >>
> >> So it looks to me as if exim is sending the mail out without getting
> >> any complaints back.But I am not familiar with exim log files.In a
> >> sendmail log I would see an ID, like:
> >>  relay=easymx2.easily.co.uk. [62.128.158.225], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> >> (OK id=1NpkG6-0003W4-6w)
> >> so I do not know if the exim one is complete despite what it says.
> >
> > It is, the "1Npk95-0004PG-4w" is your ID.
>
> Sorry, I did not make myself clear. The second example was from a
> different server, running sendmail, for comparison. It does give an ID
> but there is not an ID in the exim log.


Yes, there is (see above -- a monospaced font is recommended to
line up the arrows properly :) )

Could Google be doing greylisting?

Hugo.

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