Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed

[Julian Field]

At 17:10 23/01/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>since yesterday I have trouble with my sendmail/mailscanner setup:
>Some mails remain in /var/spool/mqueue and don't get processed.
>There are thousands of mails which get processed ok,
>but I have about 70 mails with dates from yesterday to now
>which stay in /var/spool/mqueue all the time.
>
>When doing 'mailq', all 70 mails are shown.
>But if I do a 'sendmail -v -q', only 1 or two recent mails are processed.
>All of these qfiles have lines like
>
>qfh0N1Ohvm007970:MDeferred: Connection refused by [10.48.242.10]
>qfh0N6Okvm012640:MDeferred: Connection timed out with [10.107.64.10]
>
>but currently there are now connection problems.
>Restarting sendmail and removing /var/spool/mqueue/.hoststat/
>doesn't help either.
>
>Any ideas, how to get them delivered?

This is 100% a sendmail problem :-)

Have you tried (from your MailScanner host) typing "telnet 10.48.242.10 25" 
and/or "telnet 10.107.64.10 25" to see if the connections really can't be made?


>Version info:
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>sendmail-8.12.2-88
>
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>
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>
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