On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03.54, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

Can anybody please explain the following mail log entry:

Sep 23 14:25:35 www sendmail[31516]: g8N4PIw31516: to=<billy@scenery.com.tw>, delay=02:00:16, pri=71059, stat=timeout waiting for input during message collect Sep 23 14:27:18 www sendmail[31525]: g8N4RAw31525: to=<billy@scenery.com.tw>, delay=02:00:06, pri=705676, stat=timeout waiting for input during message collect Sep 23 14:30:44 www sendmail[31536]: g8N4Tpw31536: to=<billy@scenery.com.tw>, delay=02:00:02, pri=83236, stat=timeout waiting for input during message collect

The message had a delivery delay of 2 days and the stat does not give me a clue.

For some reason the mail client doesn't send the message data when it's supposed to. Normally this is what you'd see when some scanner tries your mailserver to see if it's an open relay. Is it a valid mail, in the sense that someone on your company actually tried to mail billy@scenery.com.tw at that time? If no, you'd better check your mail server config because then you're a wide open relay. If yes, which mail client did you use? //Anders