Re: NDR delivery delayed errors keep coming, any advice?

Mike wrote:
Les,

Sorry I don't think I said that right. I haven't done anything with the smarthost, still doing SMTP delivery from my server.

Anyway, I sent another e-mail to one of the domains I am having trouble sending to, and went and looked at the logs as you instructed. Here was the post from their IP address in the logfile.

15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x EHLO - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x MAIL - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x RCPT - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x XEXCH50 - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:42 xx.xxx.xxx.x BDAT - 0
15:07:45 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0
15:07:45 xx.xxx.xxx.x QUIT - 0
15:07:45 xx.xxx.xxx.x - - 0

I assume all the 0's mean something is wrong. Other IP addresses in the logfile have the 250, 550, 240 type numbers in each row. Does that help at all? When I look at the queue right now my SmallBusiness SMTP connector has a line with that domain name showing up, but the status is ready, not retry (which I am used to seeing when it didn't send). Does any of this help?

That's the default SMTP logging, just the bare bones. Go back to where you enabled it and dig into Properties, Advanced tab and tick all the boxes. That way you see the full text messages passed between the servers, which is much more informative.
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