Most of the morning was spent tracking down delays in email delivery for someone. Last week he had noticed that a few emails were taking hours to arrive in his mailbox. Today, he noticed that some outgoing emails were also being delayed. I spent a fair amount of time inspecting ANTLIA to see whether the problem could be at our end. The MS Exchange logs showed a typical incoming and outgoing flow of email traffic. The NT event log was clean, except that McAfee GroupShield was complaining that disk space was low -- which was true for drive C. I made space on drive C and rebooted ANTLIA for good measure. In addition, I captured SMTP packets on ANTLIA for a couple of hours. Analysis of those packets did not reveal anything interesting -- except that MS Exchange keeps trying to send non-delivery responses to spammers. And MSEXCH 5.5 has no way to turn off NDRs.
... until the collector arrives ...
This "blog" is really just a scratchpad of mine. There is not much of general interest here. Most of the content is scribbled down "live" as I discover things I want to remember. I rarely go back to correct mistakes in older entries. You have been warned :)
