Strange sendmail errors???

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 9 10:20:41 IST 2002


At 16:25 08/05/2002, you wrote:
>Would the following sendmail errors have something to do with mailscanner???

No. They are caused by a remote mail server talking to your server too
slowly. So sendmail is timing out while waiting for the message to appear.



>Unusual System Events
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>May  8 09:32:06 tiger sendmail[6285]: g48DU6U06283: timeout waiting for
>input from local during Draining InputMay  8 09:32:06 tiger
>sendmail[6289]: g48DU6U06288: timeout waiting for
>input from local during Draining InputMay  8 09:32:06 tiger
>sendmail[6281]: g48DU6U06279: timeout waiting for
>input from local during Draining Input
>
>
>Gerry
>--
>"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
>
>--
>"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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