Need Help!

[Kelly Hamlin]

Ok, after some more investigating, ive found one VERY wierd thing. I notice
certain things that sendmail tries to send for a long time
if i try that command.. it shows that it goes and then on reset state it
stalls for a long time.

Now i also have a question. It appears that people are sending mail to a
bogus address from a bogus address, so it also seems as if mail is being
bounced back from our mailserver and then tries to bounce it back to the
originator which doesnt exist either.. got any work arounds for that?


thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Clancy" <john.clancy at BUSINESSANDFINANCE.IE>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Need Help!


> Hi Kelly,
>
> What do you see when you invoke sendmail directly to handle a single item
in
> the Q using the 'sendmail -qI -v' sytax?
> e.g. in the message below
> sendmail -qIgr70rop05695 -v
>
> JC
>
> > Here is some extra info that i didnt see before, not sure it will help,
> but
> > here goes..
> >
> >                 (Deferred: 451-Requested action aborted: local error in
> > proce)
> >
> > <OWNER-NOLIST-824*MICHAELC**CYBERSTREET*
> > g470rop05695     5638 Mon May  6 20:53 MAILER-DAEMON
> >                  (<werty8762000 at yahoo.com>... reply: read error from
> > mx1.mail.)
> >                                        <werty8762000 at yahoo.com>
> > g470snV05720     6771 Mon May  6 20:54 MAILER-DAEMON
> >                  (<quadxomania at mailer3.megahardcoresex.com>... reply:
read
> > err)
> >
> > <quadxomania at mailer3.megahardcoresex.com
> > g470sne05722     9004 Mon May  6 20:54 MAILER-DAEMON
> >                  (Deferred: 451-Requested action aborted: local error in
> > proce)
> >
> > <OWNER-NOLIST-824*JOJO**CYBERSTREET*-COM
> > g470sng05722     9032 Mon May  6 20:54 MAILER-DAEMON
> >
> > im seeing a whole bunch of these in "mailq"
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kelly Hamlin" <fizz at BOMB.NET>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:32 PM
> > Subject: Need Help!
> >
> >
> > > Its not directly mailscanner related but im hoping someone has a
clue..
> > > we had a drive crash and i was to dumb to have a current backup. I
> > > reinstalled from scratch slackware 8.0 and got everything
> > installed/tested.
> > > Sophos - tested and working..
> > > Mailscanner -  is scanning the messages and putting them in the mqueue
> dir
> > > like its supposed to do.
> > >
> > > The problem im having is, it seems as if sendmail isnt even trying to
> > > deliver those messages. They just keep backing up in that directory.
Im
> at
> > a
> > > loss as to what the problem is. I Installed all the modules i was
> supposed
> > > to, i have permissions and what not the way they are supposed to (i
> think)
> > > but i still would think any of those would have any affect on sendmail
> > > sending its queue.
> > >
> > > any idea, clues would be most helpfull as ive been working on this for
> the
> > > past 5 hours..
> > >
> > >                   //////
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> > > | [Kelly Hamlin]
> > > | kellyh at cyberstreet.com
> > > | http://www.bomb.net
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> > > |      (  )    Oooo.
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> > >                 (_/
> > >
>