Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed

[Knutzen, Heinz (DZ-SH)]

And, if there would be a network problem,
doing a 'sendmail -v -q' would tell me about 70 tries 
to deliver mail.
But my 'sendmail -v -q' say nothing,
although 70 mails are waiting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Knutzen, Heinz (DZ-SH) 
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:17 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed
> 
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > -- 
> > Julian Field
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> > 
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