From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 18:37:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264E316A41C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:37:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nivo+sender+6075ff@yuckfou.org) Received: from ssdd.xs4all.nl (ssdd.xs4all.nl [195.64.89.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EC643D49 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:37:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nivo+sender+6075ff@yuckfou.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E0940C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ssdd.xs4all.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imhotep.yuckfou.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01081-09 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:38:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by imhotep.yuckfou.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A54193F6; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:38:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.239] (turbata-xp.gondel.local [192.168.2.239]) by localhost.yuckfou.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:38:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42A0A377.10901@yuckfou.org> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:37:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nils Vogels X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) X-TMDA-Fingerprint: +Oooi5tABkcKjlzMmP59lzJUTgc X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at yuckfou.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.893 tagged_above=-999 required=6.31 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-3.3, AWL=0.006, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: Sendmail (Deferred: Operation timed out...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nils Vogels List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:37:59 -0000 -----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-----