maillog entry understanding

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jon L. Miller wrote:

> for instance what would the following info in this line mean:
> Jun  7 15:56:21 gateway sendmail[31925]: PAA31923:
> to=<thomas.lingner at balcab.ch>, ctladdr=<gillian at sime.com.au> (539/540),
> delay=00:00:45, xdelay=00:00:27, mailer=esmtp, relay=smtp.balcab.ch.
> [213.200.1.126], stat=Sent (JAA20369 Message accepted for delivery)

The "31925" is the Process ID
"PAA31923" Is the LOCAL message ID
stat=Sent (JAA20369 Message accepted for delivery)
	Meanes that the message was given to another mailserver (whose message ID
    is "JAA20369" in this case it was accepted by "smtp.balcab.ch"

If you "grep PAA31923  /var/log/maillog" as root you should get 2 lines 
one for the message comming into your mailserver and the outher going out.

<snip>

> If an attachment is sent with the e-mail how do I tell if it was sent or
> rejected?

AFAIK you can't tell if the attachment has been droped unless the remote
mailserver tells you.  I dont think many of them would.  Generally if the
message goes then the attachment should go with it.  If its getting lost then 
it not (or doesn't appear to be) your fault.

HTH

Yours Tony.

Also: you may like to update your address book for plug it's now
plug at plug.linux.org.au NOT plug at linux.org.au.


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