Some mails in outgoing queue don't get processed

[Julian Field]

At 17:20 23/01/2003, you wrote:
>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.

Does it even show that it has thought about delivering them? Sendmail has a 
limit on the number of queue runners it allows at any time, so it might 
possibly do nothing whatsoever when you run another one.


> > -----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
> > > www.MailScanner.info
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> > >
> > >
> >

-- 
Julian Field
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