Re: Email sending problem -- any Google Relay experts here?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

The IbM SMTP server will attempt to resend emails that didn't get delivered
over and over.

It's a good idea to end MSF and restart it with the *CLEAR option now and
then.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:59 AM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've made a very little bit of progress on troubleshooting this:
>
> Yesterday afternoon, I got word that the box was contacting Google
> "every 30-40 seconds." This sounded like a retry, but it took me a while
> to figure out the next steps.
>
> This morning, doing a Google search for whether the SMTP server had
> logs, I discovered the WRKSMTPEMM command (something new in V7; I'd
> never heard of it before). I found some test messages from the actual
> application still in the system, but not the test messages I'd sent from
> MMail.
>
> After looking at the logs on the three, I got rid of them, and tried
> sending another test message from MMail. That showed up immediately, and
> I looked at its log. I found:
>
>   11:47:52 0029 Recipient JHHL@xxxxxxxxx transfered to server directly
>   11:47:52 0039 Marking JHHL@xxxxxxxxx as WRK
>   11:47:53 0039 Connected to Server SMTP-RELAY.GMAIL.COM(74.125.193.28
>   11:47:53 0039 ):587
>   11:47:53 003A Marking JHHL@xxxxxxxxx as NDL
>
> Now THAT is interesting.
>
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> JHHL
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