From: Mike '/m' 

Outlook removed the message from Outlook's Outbox (indicating it was sent),
yet the message never made it to Outlook's Sent Items box. Outlook lost the
message somewhere inside of Outlook.  Gone, no trace of the message at all.
 It's not in Outlook anywhere, and the server doesn't have it.  These are
messages to clients with quotes, and other information.  If the email
server was the culprit, the message should still be in one of the Outlook
boxes (most likely Outlook's Outbox because it wasn't sent).

Postfix feeding the mail server has not had a problem at all, even though a
few people are now using it instead of having Outlook feed the main email
server directly.  Only people who use Outlook have a problem with the
message disappearing inside of Outlook.

 /m


On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:17:24 -0700, "Rich"  wrote:

>   Other than your assertion, how did you determine that the message was never
accepted by your overloaded SMTP server?  It sure appears that your server
is accepting email and losing it not that you would ever be honest enough
to admit that.
>
>Rich
>
>  "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:ae1cj11en1g74dhk25h4bchng01uvlset0{at}4ax.com...
>
>  Man, that problem drives me crazy at work.  Our email server is
>  overloaded and will be upgraded in a couple of weeks (40% annual growth
>  in a company creates interesting problems...).  Until then, I am greeted
>  my POP3 and SMTP timeouts.  The SMTP timeouts are particularly egregious
>  with Outlook.  Outlook says the message is sent, but the message was
>  never accepted by the email server.
>
>  One of the Software Engineers on my team sent me an email that he was
>  taking a two days vacation.  Outlook said it was sent fine, but the
>  email server never accepted it.   Needless, I became *very* concerned
>  when he didn't show up for two days....
>
>   /m  email...>

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