My problems continue - Please help ASAP
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jan 22 11:28:44 GMT 2003
At 00:35 22/01/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry Julian. I was wrong. I was viewing those directories using webmin
>and it wasn't refreshed. They did get cleared out.
That solves most of it :-)
>I'm still not any closer to what has caused our problems though. Should
>i re-enable spam checking and leave RBL's off? Any suggestions?
Try running without the RBL's for a little while. If there are RBL timeout
problems, these will be mentioned in your maillog.
>Thanks,
>James
>
>On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:14, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 22:02 21/01/2003, you wrote:
> > >It seems like it's catching up slowly. I haven't done a couple of these
> > >yet, but I wanted to respond.
> > >
> > >Only one version of MailScanner has been installed
> > >ps -ef | grep sendmail gives the output at the bottom.
> > >I believe the hardware is ok
> > >Plenty of disk space free
> > >
> > >Haven't run sendmail -q -v yet. Should I run that while MailScanner is
> > >running, or stop MailScanner first, or leave MailScanner running, but
> > >spam turned off?
> >
> > Shouldn't matter. Probably worth killing off the sendmail processes first
> > though, in case you have a version that won't run multiple simultaneous
> > queue runners.
> >
> >
> > >Thanks,
> > >James
> > >
> > >root at pcalaklx01 log]# ps -ef | grep sendmail
> > >root 779 1 0 14:43 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> > >connections
> > >root 795 1 0 14:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
> > >root 11945 1 0 15:44 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKWjO10074
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 11948 1 0 15:44 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKX4O10098: from q
> > >root 11951 1 0 15:44 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKUcO09776: from q
> > >root 11954 1 0 15:44 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKYqO10331
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 11957 1 0 15:44 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKaXO10640: from q
> > >root 12297 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKK3D08065: from q
> > >root 12300 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKNMO08578
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12303 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKHlD07880
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12306 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKL3D08224: from q
> > >root 12309 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKK5D08067
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12504 1 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKToO09599: from q
> > >root 12507 1 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKPkO09049
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12510 1 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKTuO09613
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12513 1 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKQPO09134
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12516 1 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKRYO09295
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12530 779 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >dfw7-1.relay.ma
> > >root 12572 779 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >ashd1-1.relay.m
> > >root 12606 779 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >La03mail24.powe
> > >root 12635 779 0 15:46 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >[64.152.200.111
> > >root 12640 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >offerchkmail11.
> > >root 12755 1 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKc9O10871
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12757 1 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKhi601017
> > >[10.96.
> > >root 12759 1 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKdIO11089: from q
> > >root 12764 1 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKdNO11106: from q
> > >root 12767 1 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail:
> > >./h0LKc4O10857: from q
> > >root 12795 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >chi6-1.relay.ma
> > >root 12814 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >members2.emailw
> > >root 12815 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >port-64-1956812
> > >root 12820 12606 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlV612820
> > >La03mail2
> > >root 12825 12572 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlX612825
> > >ashd1-1.r
> > >root 12841 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
> > >[209.164.
> > >root 12864 12815 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlh612864
> > >port-64-1
> > >root 12866 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
> > >12.5.161.
> > >root 12875 12635 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlk612875
> > >[64.152.2
> > >root 12878 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
> > >mail11.at
> > >root 12880 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >mail228.mb11.co
> > >root 12882 779 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: server
> > >wic1.worldatama
> > >root 12893 12880 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlu612893
> > >mail228.m
> > >root 12894 12882 0 15:47 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlu612894
> > >wic1.worl
> > >root 12896 735 0 15:47 pts/0 00:00:00 grep sendmail
> > >You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> > >[root at pcalaklx01 log]#
> > >
> > >
> > >On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:38, Julian Field wrote:
> > > > At 21:37 21/01/2003, you wrote:
> > > > >A new problem(could be related to my other problems) came up on the
> > > > >server we have running mailscanner. Mail was not being routed for some
> > > > >reason. The server was recieving mail, but it was all getting stuck in
> > > > >mqueue.in and/or mqueue.
> > > > >
> > > > >I restarted MailScanner(4.10-1) and that didn't seem to do anything.
> > > > >
> > > > >We still have a ton of messages in mqeueu.in and quite a bit in mqueue
> > > > >as well. Should it still deliver everything? It's delivering mail
> but I
> > > > >can't figure out where it's picking it up from.
> > > > >
> > > > >Has anyone seen this before. I downloaded the maillog and the only
> > > > >problem I see is a lot of timeouts while trying to check the RBL's.
> > > > >Currently I'm using ORDB-RBL and Infinite-Monkeys.
> > > > >
> > > > >We had problems where our server just dies. Could these timeouts have
> > > > >anything to do with it?
> > > > >
> > > > >I'm open to any suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > Start by switching off the spam checking.
> > > > Make sure you only have 1 version of MailScanner running.
> > > > Make sure you only have the sendmail processes running that are
> started as
> > > > part of MailScanner. Be careful you don't have any running with
> both daemon
> > > > options "-bd -q15m".
> > > > Make sure all your hardware works.
> > > > Make sure you haven't run out of disk space anywhere (do a "df -k" to
> > > check).
> > > > Run "sendmail -q -v" and see what it prints out as it tries to
> deliver all
> > > > the outgoing queue.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Julian Field
> > > > www.MailScanner.info
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> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
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