This is a real curiosity. After I failed to receive an e-mail I checked my server logs and saw this:
So according to the server, postfix relayed the message successfully. I therefore checked my desktop machine's (192.168.1.64) postfix log:
As you can see, at the time the message was allegedly relayed the receiving machine was not running postfix, probably because it was switched off! I have checked the
I find this hard to explain. Any ideas?
Code:
Dec 15 17:23:40 mailin postfix/smtp[75989]: C93D427371: to=<xxxx@xxxx>, orig_to=<yyyy@yyyy>, relay=zzzz.localdomain[192.168.1.64]:25, delay=0.51, delays=0.43/0.03/0.04/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as EE2BDDC0)
Dec 15 17:23:40 mailin postfix/qmgr[99260]: C93D427371: removed
So according to the server, postfix relayed the message successfully. I therefore checked my desktop machine's (192.168.1.64) postfix log:
Code:
Dec 15 15:08:08 localhost postfix/postfix-script[19976]: stopping the Postfix mail system
Dec 15 15:08:08 localhost postfix/master[4913]: terminating on signal 15
Dec 15 17:42:52 localhost postfix[4859]: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default se
ttings
Dec 15 17:42:52 localhost postfix[4859]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html fo
r details
Dec 15 17:42:52 localhost postfix[4859]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compat
ibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Dec 15 17:42:52 localhost postfix/postfix-script[4936]: starting the Postfix mail system
Dec 15 17:42:52 localhost postfix/master[4938]: daemon started -- version 3.2.2, configuration /
etc/postfix
As you can see, at the time the message was allegedly relayed the receiving machine was not running postfix, probably because it was switched off! I have checked the
date
command on both machines, just to be sure they agree.I find this hard to explain. Any ideas?