"Larry" <lkillen@charter.net> wrote in message
news:45e70537$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Is there something I can monitor to insure that the mail left the
server?
Not from the client end, no. Once the message reaches a server, it is
out of your hands.
> I have a port monitor installed but all it tells me is that the SMTP
> port is open.
A Port monitor does not tell you what is actually being exchanged.
You need a packet sniffer for that.
> Would I know if the mail failed to send?
Only if there was a problem in your client sending the message to the
server. If no exception is raised, then the message was delivered ok.
It then becomes the server's responsibility to finish delivering the
message to the specified recipients later. There is no way to track
that operation from the client side. If the server has problems
delivering the message, it will send an error email back to the
address that you specified in the "From" header.
Gambit
