From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 13:06:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C8D16A41B for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8C313C45D for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup9.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.9]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id l9JD53Fa008743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:05:29 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9JD4rBv003277; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:04:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9JD4fJn003265; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:04:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:04:41 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Steve Bertrand Message-ID: <20071019130441.GC2893@kobe.laptop> References: <4716799B.5010502@dwinner.net> <47183140.5010608@ibctech.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47183140.5010608@ibctech.ca> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.92, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.48, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: dwinner@dwinner.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:06:01 -0000 On 2007-10-19 00:23, Steve Bertrand wrote: >Duane Winner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. > > Usually when 'sendmail' is in a subject line, one can usually expect > Giorgos respond :) Thanks Steve, I'm honored by the confidence :) I've been having network connectivity issues and fell a lot back in my email backlog. I'm back online, with a better setup now, so things will start improving I guess. > This is not a Sendmail issue, per-se. You are right about that. The original email by Duane Winner said: I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com [69.89.17.210] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 This usually means that there is an incoming connection from the host outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com, whose IP address is 69.89.17.210, but the connection was lost before the host managed to issue any commands to deliver email, query for alias expansion, and so on. Whenever I've seen this happening, it is usually some sort of network setup error, broken routing, a misconfigured router in the path between the originating host (outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com) and Sendmail, or something similar. > If we can take this back one step to re-evaluate the entire situation > it may help: > > - what is the domain you are seeing issues with (are there more than > one? If so, are they on the same box/IP?) > - what IP is this domain's mail operating on > - examples of domains you see problems with, and examples of those you don't > - is it only mailing lists you have problems with > - do you receive this email I am sending on the problematic server > > Do you have another site that you can confirm working/not working? Good points :) Duane, can you respond to the questions of Steve above? They will at least provide us with hints to start troubleshooting this better. - Giorgos