Errors in the mail log

[Alex Neuman]

Usually rpm upgrades and such will do the equivalent of "chkconfig sendmail
on", which you have to keep an eye out for.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Ugo Bellavance
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:48 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Errors in the mail log


-----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