Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:37:43 +0200 From: Nils Vogels <nivo+sender+6075ff@yuckfou.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail (Deferred: Operation timed out...) Message-ID: <42A0A377.10901@yuckfou.org> In-Reply-To: <ee11ef4a050602155842b00dad@mail.gmail.com> References: <ee11ef4a050602155842b00dad@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nicholas, Nicholas Henry wrote: >When sending messages out they are left in the mqueue directory. Examining >the contents for files I find this error: > >Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.megamailservers.com. This could be caused by a few things. First of all: I am assuming that "mx3.megamailservers.com" is not the mailserver of your ISP that you are using to have sendmail send mail through. I am assuming that this is a mailserver that needs to be contacted because there is a subscribed user from that domain in your mailinglists. Reason 1: The remote mailserver could have been busy or offline at the moment that your sendmail tried to forward the mail. No biggie, this happens. Everyone has to reboot every once in a while, every mailserver gets hammered with spam every once in a while. Reason 2: The internet was experiencing trouble connecting your mailserver to mx3.megamailservers.com. To check if this still is occuring, you could launch a telnet to mx3.megamailservers.com on port 25 (the default SMTP port). If everything is OK, the remote mailserver should greet you like this: 220 mail23.megamailservers.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:30:53 -0400 If there still is some error, check your firewall, see if your ISP is blocking direct SMTP connections (some do..) If there still is an error after that, something could be wrong in your setup. Check /var/log/maillog for clues ! Greetings, Nils -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFCoKN1MzNX/a06Wq0RAjY4AJdXU4KbgrqGSr4tSRFKZc1Q9/1+AJ9K64Uc ncQLap+LdMT5zA0turiyWQ== =q5CQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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