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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 02:09:56 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Andreas Wider?e Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail questions
Message-ID:  <20030325000956.GC1317@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030324151034.00b8a940@mail.pragma.no>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030324151034.00b8a940@mail.pragma.no>

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On 2003-03-24 15:14, Andreas Wider?e Andersen <awand@pragma.no> wrote:
> I've got two questions:
>
> 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD
> servers (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8
> RC): ... did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
> MTA. I'm seing this in my /var/log/maillog file and since the
> problems occured around 04.30 this morning I haven't received any
> mails. Can anyone please explain to me what's going on? Both servers
> have been delivering mail for a long problem-free time. I'm running
> Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8.

What's the deal with the two different version numbers?  Are you
running two different Sendmail versions on the same machine?

> 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail
> sent from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can
> I manually send these mails off later?

It looks like one of the sendmail processes that should runn on your
system for mail to work somehow dies.

What does this show?

	# ps xauww | grep sendmail

- Giorgos


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