Re: [Evolution] Many mails never reach the recipients - Evolution 3.10.4

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 12:24 +0100, Max wrote:
> > I have experienced this problem at least once in the past as well. 
> > Though I would have noticed if it were happening on a regular basis. I
> > thought that I just missed an error message back then. If there was 
> > indeed no error message, this would be a very very bad issue that
> > needs to be fixed asap, as otherwise it would render evolution utterly
> > unusable. I think I will add a dummy email address to BCC to
> > immediately notice message loss in the future...
>
> BCC is something I also use very often. I'm not sure if it's related to
> Evolution or if it's another issue. FWIW I notice that it's better to
> send one mail after the other, than to send one mail and while it's
> still sending, to click send for another mail too. I suspect that it's
> related to Evolution, or some issues caused by the providers sometimes
> are not noticed by Evolution. It seems to be like that, but there are no
> valid evidences.

Things to try:

* BCC your outgoing mail, as has been suggested
* Note which addresses fail. Is it always the same ones or do they vary?
Do some addresses never fail?
* Is there any correlation between failing addresses and mailing lists?
* Have your recipients checked their Junk folders?
* Try other MUAs with any addresses which consistently fail. What
happens?

Other things that come to mind: authentication at SMTP level, local
policy on which SMTP servers can be used, existence of proxies along the
delivery path.

A lot of things can go wrong. I sometimes think it's a miracle any mail
ever gets through, but that's nothing to do with Evo.

poc