Errors in the mail log

Fri Apr 9 15:47:59 IST 2004

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Alex Neuman [mailto:alex at nkpanama.com]
Envoyé : 9 avril, 2004 10:41
À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Objet : Re: Errors in the mail log

You had standard sendmail processes running. My usual remedy is to killall -9 sendmail, killall -9 MailScanner, and service MailScanner restart. I'm sure I'll get some flak for doing killall's like that... ;-) 

<UB>
Well, you should use the startup scripts to stop sendmail and MailScanner, if you have some.  And using the default signal of kill should be enough (15). 

He should also have a look at why standalone sendmail starts...

</UB>  
-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:38 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Errors in the mail log

PROBLEM #1 (HAPPENED FIRST)
I installed Rules Du Jour with everyone's help and it seems to be working since the headers have rule reports from BigEvil and I didn't have this installed before.

However I have had multiple people email me and say that they have had an increase of spam now, some 50 more per day and some 20 more per day.  Also I have noticed that the spam box doesn't receive as much as it used to either (I have spam forwarded to a email address).

Would anyone know the reason for this, or a way I can track down what happened?

PROBLEM #2 (HAPPENED NEXT DAY)

This probably happened because of me doing something where I don't know what I was doing.  One thing that I changed was the alias file, I changed it to the following:
# Person who should get root's mail
root:          administrator at woodmaclaw.com

So I was getting roots email and the spam filter was working but with PROBLEM #1's condition.  Today I come in and I have these errors in the log and the filter doesn't seem to be working at all at the moment.   

Help is greatly appreciated.  Than you very much.

 [root at MailScanner etc]# tail -f /var/log/maillog
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14050]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt
 by bpumphrey
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14050]: /etc/aliases: 63 aliases, longest 1
0 bytes, 625 bytes total
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sm-msp-queue[14064]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queue
ing at 00:15:00
Apr  9 09:20:07 MailScanner sendmail[14070]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queueing@
00:15:00
Apr  9 09:20:11 MailScanner MailScanner[14089]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
 version 4.25-14 starting...
Apr  9 09:20:12 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:12 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:16 MailScanner MailScanner[14089]: Using locktype = flock
Apr  9 09:20:17 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:17 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:21 MailScanner MailScanner[14094]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
 version 4.25-14 starting...
Apr  9 09:20:22 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:22 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:26 MailScanner MailScanner[14094]: Using locktype = flock
Apr  9 09:20:27 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:27 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:31 MailScanner MailScanner[14096]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
 version 4.25-14 starting...
Apr  9 09:20:31 MailScanner sendmail[14095]: i39EKUDH014095: from=<>, size=27524
, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<405AFEE70033095E at dpo2w2p.servers.epost.de>, bodytype
=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.epost.de [193.28.100.151]
Apr  9 09:20:32 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:32 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:35 MailScanner sendmail[14098]: i39EKUDH014095: to=<jacobson at woodma
claw.com>, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=30461, relay=[10.1
.1.2] [10.1.1.2], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ( <405AFEE70033095E at dpo2w2p.servers.epost
.de> Queued mail for delivery)
Apr  9 09:20:36 MailScanner MailScanner[14096]: Using locktype = flock
Apr  9 09:20:37 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:37 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:41 MailScanner MailScanner[14099]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
 version 4.25-14 starting...
Apr  9 09:20:42 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:42 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:46 MailScanner MailScanner[14099]: Using locktype = flock
Apr  9 09:20:47 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:47 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:51 MailScanner MailScanner[14100]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
 version 4.25-14 starting...
Apr  9 09:20:52 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:52 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:56 MailScanner MailScanner[14100]: Using locktype = flock
Apr  9 09:20:57 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Apr  9 09:20:57 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP s
ocket
Apr  9 09:20:57 MailScanner sendmail[14059]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonso
cket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting