Why don't I receive mail although I get a 250 OK response?

Asked Jun 07 '16 at 17:10

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I'm trying to send a mail with telnet. Everything seems to be OK but I don't receive the mail.

Here is what I do inside my terminal on Debian 8:

telnet localhost smtp
220 simon ESMTP Exim 4.84_2 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:45:24 +0200
HELO 85.170.206.70
250 simon Hello localhost [::1]
mail from: me@gmail.com
250 OK
rcpt to: simongarnier07@hotmail.fr
250 Accepted
data    
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
From: sender@example.com
To: recipient@example.com
Subject: Test message

content

.
250 OK id=1bAK8U-0002ej-DJ

QUIT

As you can see I get a SMTP status code 250 but I never receive any mail (even in the undesirable mails folder).

I also tested with RCPT to: <simongarnier07@hotmail.fr> but without result.

What am I doing wrong?

edited Jun 07 '16 at 19:22

Jeff Schaller

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asked Jun 07 '16 at 17:10

user3581976

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Did you check /var/log/maillog? – user1700494 Jun 07 '16 at 17:16
I don't have this file on my system but I didn't check any other log files. – user3581976 Jun 07 '16 at 17:19
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Right now all you know is that exim received the message. You need to look into exim's log files to find out what exim did with the messages. exim -bp might provide clues, too. – Stefan Schmiedl Jun 07 '16 at 17:30
The messages are frozen: "1.1K 1bAK6E-0001VE-Gl <> *** frozen ***" – user3581976 Jun 07 '16 at 19:01
I'm "linking" this to this question with helpful answers: https://serverfault.com/questions/867407/postfix-what-does-queued-mail-for-delivery-mean – MacMartin Feb 09 '23 at 09:51

Why don't I receive mail although I get a 250 OK response?

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