Re: need help deciphering a line

2 msg	Postfix SASL Help
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need help deciphering a line
\ Charlie Farinella (22 Jan 2008)
. \ Victor Duchovni (22 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: need help deciphering a line
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Victor Duchovni
Date:	22 Jan 2008

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:21:06PM -0500, Charlie Farinella wrote:

> We have a postfix server sending through an ISP relay that works for a
> while and then just gets bogged down. We've thought the relay server
> becomes unresponsive, but I'm hoping that someone can help me determine
> what exactly the following mailq result entry means:
>
> ==
> 5F63112D760 4161 Tue Jan 22 12:59:06 MAILER-DAEMON
> (host smtp-out.ispname.net[XXX.XXX.XXX.57] said: 421 Service not
> available, closing transmission channel (in reply to RCPT TO command))
>
> 8-1007512-mydomain.com?username
> ==
>
> I don't understand what the last line represents. After the ? is the
> address to send to, but what does 8-1007512-mydomain.com mean?

No the entire line is the (external VERP bounce) address to send to.

--
Viktor.

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