Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:21:44 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail prematurely failing send attempts Message-ID: <20020304142144.GB30857@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20020304123302.S71173-100000@arnold.neland.dk> References: <NDBBJAKLELDAGKJFOEIAGEHNEJAA.apfortin@cyberbeach.net> <20020304123302.S71173-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:38:40PM +0100, Leif Neland thus spoke: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Andre Fortin wrote: > > 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.. [deletia] > The mail has probably been delivered by now, but for the archives: > > Sendmail keeps records of the outgoing connection(-attempts), > so several simultaneously running invocations of sendmail > (queuerunners) are trying the same host. So when a host is marked > down, sendmail won't try it for a while. > Look in sendmail.cw for "O HostStatusDirectory" > There you will find a directory of the reversed hostnames. > For instance I might have /var/run/hoststat/org./freebsd./mail. > Delete that file for instant retry. And if you look in /etc/periodic/daily there is a file called 150.clean-hoststat that references the file /var/run/.hoststat, so in a default operations things will usually recover overnight. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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