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Re: Possible MX Lookup/Ordering Issue

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 11:45:41 CDT


gordanbobich.net:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:49:38PM +0000, gordanbobich.net wrote:
> >
> >> Nov 1 07:15:33 smtp-out-b postfix/cleanup[22462]: 5C6037A2683:
> >> message-id=<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAMZwGI7IkCJPiEIFgLPzqtnCgAAAEAAAA
> >> FTJx60TftpBkIoHmlwF8GsBAAAAAA==zoom.co.uk>
> >
> >> Nov 1 07:15:33 smtp-out-b postfix/qmgr[20307]: 5C6037A2683:
> >> from=<foozoom.co.uk>, size=2903, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> >
> >> Nov 1 07:16:52 smtp-out-b postfix/smtp[22405]: 5C6037A2683:
> >> to=<bargriffin.com>, relay=none, delay=81, status=deferred
> >> (connect to avt15.mail.griffin.com[85.189.39.55]: No route to host)
> >
> > This shows only one connection attempt, either you don't have multiple
> > MX hosts, or you log search only looks for log entries that match the
> > queue id of the message, and omits other log entries that show failed
> > connection attempts with no queue id.
>
> It didn't occur to me that there would be connection attempts listed
> without the queue id of the message the connects were attempted for. How
> would one, in that case, relate a connection to a message?

Searching all the postfix/smtp messages for PID 22405 would get
you a pretty good idea of the MX connect strategy.

        Wietse