Owl River Company

Your IP is: 38.107.191.113

reading the mail log ...

We have taken and sanitized a log extract, which was a live example tracking down a specific user's ('paulhill') asserted inability to send email. We sanitized the userid, source IP and host name and recipient userids, to appear to be from our example server outsmtp.example.com ; the range 172.16 ... 31.x.x is reserved in RFC 1918 as one of the dedicated private IP space ranges. That RFC states that such IP ranges are recommended to be dropped at any border router which does not 'know' it is in local use.

[root@outsmtp log]# grep hill maillog | grep paul | tail -2 Sep 18 21:41:35 outsmtp sendmail[14594]: g8J1fYo14594: from=, size=558, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<3D892B1D.F6FCB2C4@example.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, mech=PLAIN, relay=col-123-56.example.com [172.21.123.56] Sep 19 09:56:21 outsmtp sendmail[2462]: g8JDuKs02462: from=, size=629, class=0, nrcpts=2, msgid=<3D89D74B.2BEE6C@example.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, mech=PLAIN, relay=col-123-78.example.com [172.21.123.78] [root@outsmtp log]# date Thu Sep 19 10:01:23 EDT 2002 [root@outsmtp log]# grep g8JDuKs02462 maillog | tail Sep 19 09:56:21 outsmtp sendmail[2462]: g8JDuKs02462: from=, size=629, class=0, nrcpts=2, msgid=<3D89D74B.2BEE6C@example.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, mech=PLAIN, relay=col-123-78.example.com [172.21.123.78] Sep 19 09:56:22 outsmtp sendmail[2464]: g8JDuKs02462: to=, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=60629, relay=dotms003.dot.state.oh.us. [156.63.133.110], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (g8JDsBZD004277 Message accepted for delivery) Sep 19 09:56:25 outsmtp sendmail[2464]: g8JDuKs02462: to=, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=60629, relay=srv01s4.cas.org. [134.243.50.9], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (g8JDuKil007600 Message accepted for delivery) [root@outsmtp log]#

Last modified: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:01:44 -0400
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