From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 4 6:21:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C534637B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:21:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g24ELiI32444 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:21:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bv) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:21:44 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail prematurely failing send attempts Message-ID: <20020304142144.GB30857@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20020304123302.S71173-100000@arnold.neland.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020304123302.S71173-100000@arnold.neland.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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