Confused operator, server down ...

[Julian Field]

At 11:19 17/01/2003, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
>
> > >Everything in both sendmail.mc and submit.mc looks rational, although
> I don't
> > >have a copy from a week ago to compare with. Both are set to localhost,
> > >127.0.0.1.
> > >
> > >If I send a message outside the system from the command line it never gets
> > >there. Messages from outside aren't getting in, I just got a notice that a
> > >message I sent 24 hours ago hasn't been delivered, "Connection refused."
> > >
> > >Telnet to port 25 from outside also gets "Connection refused."
> >
> > That will be because you set the DaemonOptions to only listen on localhost,
> > 127.0.0.1.
>
>Okay, I guess I had it backwards. I thought the new trick was to have
>submit.mc/cf
>handle the outside world, with sendmail.mc/cf restricted to localhost. Now
>that
>I've got DaemonOptions set for the public address in sendmail.mc,
>/var/spool/mqueue.in is accumulating a lot of mail.
>
>Alas, /var/spool/mqueue isn't growing at all yet. Every five seconds (yes, I
>changed the default, it seemed harmless) I get this in maillog:
>
>Jan 17 03:09:34 verbose MailScanner[13023]: MailScanner
>Jan 17 03:09:34 verbose MailScanner[13023]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.11-1 starting...
>
>In top and ps I see frequent entries like this one from ps aux:
>root     13069  4.6  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    03:10   0:00 [MailScanner
><defunct>]

What else does your maillog say? It sounds like MailScanner isn't managing
to start up.


> > Do
> > sendmail -bv root
> > to see where sendmail will actually try to deliver the message.
>
>[root at verbose mail]# sendmail -bv vanhorn
>vanhorn... deliverable: mailer local, user vanhorn
>[root at verbose mail]# sendmail -bv root
>vanhorn... deliverable: mailer local, user vanhorn
>
>But as far as I can see it doesn't actually try to deliver anything.
>
>So I'm getting closer, but I'm not there yet. Any more places to check?
>
>Van
>
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