Lost E-mail

[evilphantom]

Well this is a weird one but then again aren't all computer issues.....LOL
The issue is that when the primary server goes down the secondary server [with the queue] captures all the e-mail being sent to mydomain.com or so I thought. Last night our server went down and an e-mail was sent at 6:00am to a user account. The server didn't comeback up until 8:00am. When the queue sent the mail in the queue back to us I recieved an e-mail that was sent at 5:48am but someone else didn't recieve a mailsent 12 minutes later. The e-mail was resent and recieved. Then a flood of users mentioned similar problems in the past. When I checked the mail queue on the backup server nothing was there. and I can't find the e-mail anywhere so where might it have gone.

I am using mandrake 8 and sendmail Version 8.12.8

Thanks

 

[Weppie]

If it wasn't in the mailqueue of your backup mailserver, and there was nothing in the logs, it was probably bounced.... You should be getting bounce messages, but that might take a while

 

[evilphantom]

Alright Not sure if this is the same problem or a new one. I have had users complain that e-mail has been sent to them but is not being recieved by them. Internally this works fine but on occassion a user will be sent an eMail from a client however they never recieve it and the client never recieves an error message. Any Ideas

Dez