From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The mail server logs should tell the tale.  Next time it happens, note the
time, and then have the mail admins check the logs to see what happened at
the server end.

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Glenn M.
"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4336fae9{at}w3.nls.net... You're wrong, it's not the mail server.

Geo.
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:4336cefc{at}w3.nls.net...
     You are still describing a broken email server that accepted an email
then lost it.  As you already noted your server is overloaded, maybe your
upgrade to it will help you with your email server problems.  Maybe you
should consider a higher quality email server like Exchange.

  Rich

    "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:nj5dj1psfkmgmu48i6iij0d39hs6465m1p{at}4ax.com...
    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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