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 --- Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen <awand@pragma.no> Pragma AS http://www.pragma.no=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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