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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:02:06 +0100
From:      Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail questions
Message-ID:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030325085956.0259bd20@mail.pragma.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030325000956.GC1317@gothmog.gr>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030324151034.00b8a940@mail.pragma.no> <5.2.0.9.0.20030324151034.00b8a940@mail.pragma.no>

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At 02:09 25.03.2003 +0200, you wrote:
>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?

No, they are on 2 different servers.

> > 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


root     484  0.0  0.3  2784 1660  ??  Ss    6:07PM   0:03.47 sendmail:=20
accepting connections (sendmail)
smmsp    495  0.0  0.3  2656 1552  ??  Is    6:08PM   0:00.05 sendmail:=20
Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)

I got the problem solved.
What solved the problem for me was to remove all the dnsbl
blacklistings, recompile the cf file and restart my Sendmail. Now it
works fine again. I will let things calm down before I start adding
those dnsbls again.

I wasn't the only one getting this problem, and all of us got it fixed by=20
removing dnsbl features.

/Andreas



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Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
Pragma AS

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