I have about 8 of these over two days all continue to be retired I am trying to be pro-active and was just looking if ether was something i may have hosed on my side
although this is the only server I have been having problems I really think the issue is with that server but was just looking for expert input > On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:54 AM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > > Am 18.10.2014 um 15:36 schrieb jason hirsh: >> I am having trouble sending email to a specific server >> >> I got the following error >> >> "lost connection with >> mx.example.org [xx.xx.xx.xxx] while receiving >> the initial servergreeting” >> >> The operator says its my issue yet i have no problems with any other servers > > that is nonsense because he can't know that - no other complaints don't mean > it happens here and there without take notice not does that message alone > means anything at all > > "lost connection" is just the messenger that, well, the connection was lost > and is completly outside postfix scope, the only relevant question is how > often that happens and if a lter retry works which is expected behavior > > look below 8 lost connections to one server of hotmail > > so what - 12 successful - the first was retried seconds later to a different > MX, the reason could have been our link, their link, one of the routers > between the servers at that moment - who cares? > > so did your mail *really* fail or do you just have panic because you see > "lost connection" for no reason? > _________________________________________________________________________ > > cat maillog | grep "65.54.188.72" | grep "status=sent" | wc -l > 12 > > Oct 12 18:00:39 mail postfix/smtp[17729]: 3jG73B02HDz2d: to=<***>, > relay=mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.104]:25, delay=146, delays=22/121/1.5/0.84, > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 > <col004-mc3f30lsnpkz0001a...@col004-mc3f30.hotmail.com> Queued mail for > delivery) > Oct 12 18:00:39 mail postfix/smtp[17729]: 3jG73B02HDz2d: to=<***>, > relay=mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.104]:25, delay=146, delays=22/121/1.5/0.84, > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 > <col004-mc3f30lsnpkz0001a...@col004-mc3f30.hotmail.com> Queued mail for > delivery) > _________________________________________________________________________ > > Oct 12 18:00:36 mail postfix/smtp[17729]: 3jG73B02HDz2d: lost connection with > mx2.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 12 18:08:00 mail postfix/smtp[17730]: 3jG74F4kj8z3H: lost connection with > mx2.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 12 18:14:22 mail postfix/smtp[17729]: 3jG74q691qz3W: lost connection with > mx3.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 12 18:23:39 mail postfix/smtp[17731]: 3jG76B1BPpz3y: lost connection with > mx1.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 12 18:26:48 mail postfix/smtp[17728]: 3jG76L4Dkjz3s: lost connection with > mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 12 18:28:03 mail postfix/smtp[17729]: 3jG77G3z6fz45: lost connection with > mx1.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 14 07:55:09 mail postfix/smtp[29058]: 3jH5ZM0zRgz23: lost connection with > mx2.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting > Oct 15 15:07:12 mail postfix/smtp[23519]: 3jHv691gnWz2W: lost connection with > mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.188.72] while receiving the initial server greeting
