Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed

[Knutzen, Heinz (DZ-SH)]

> 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?

Yes I have tried this recently and now  again.
telnet to port 25 works.

Shure, it is a sendmail problem.
But I would like to ask anyway

Viele Grüße

-- Heinz


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:10 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed
> 
> 
> 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:
> >mailscanner-4.05-3
> >sendmail-8.12.2-88
> >
> >Viele Grüße
> >
> >-- Heinz Knutzen
> >
> >Datenzentrale Schleswig-Holstein
> >Altenholzer Str. 10-14, 24161 Altenholz, Germany
> >http://www.dzsh.de/
> >mailto:heinz.knutzen at dzsh.de
> >Tel: +49.431.3295.6581 Fax: +49.431.3295.410
> 
> -- 
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