Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:34:18 -0500 From: "Andre Fortin" <apfortin@cyberbeach.net> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Sendmail prematurely failing send attempts Message-ID: <NDBBJAKLELDAGKJFOEIAKEHNEJAA.apfortin@cyberbeach.net>
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Hello, I'm running sendmail 8.11.6 on a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE system. I'm having a problem with one particular ISP, when sending mail to them. Earlier, the ISP had a lame DNS entry for their mail server, and my sendmail system started deferring messages destined to that ISP. The problem is, the DNS is fine now, and I can even telnet to port 25 on that mail server from my mail server. MX lookups are also fine. Everything seems AOK. The problem is, even after totally wiping(actually, I just moved) the queue, the messages are still being deferred, with the error 'stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.otherisp.com.'. This is odd considering a telnet session to that ISP works perfectly fine.. I have restarted the sendmail daemon, killed it and waited for all processes to end, waited a bit longer, turned it back on, with the same result. Starting sendmail with -X shows that there is absolutely no exchange of data between our mail server and theirs. netstat -an shows no active or TIME_WAIT connections to their mail server... Sendmail simply isnt even trying at all... Forcing with sendmail -qRisp.com simply spits out a bunch of 'deferred' messages and never even tries the first time. The only thing I can think of that I haven't done is reboot the whole server, however I'd like to avoid that if I can(its bad enough I have to shut down a server with a 400 day uptime on it soon due to a movie, I want to build up a new high-uptime FBSD machine as soon as possible :)). Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Andre apfortin@cyberbeach.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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