Connection Refused by...

[Peter Bonivart]

Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> I'm starting a new topic on this one.  (came from another topic)
>
> Yes, 10.1.1.2 is a exchange server that the mail goes to after
> mailscanner.  I suppose it's a setting or something on the exchange
> server or something but I wouldn't even know where to start.

I guess you don't run the Exchange server too but can you confirm with
those who do that they didn't have problems at those times? I deliver to
Exchange servers too and they go down several times a week and I see it
immediately in my stats and always report how many retries I did and how
much mail was queued and stuff like that. The Microsoft guys squirms in
their chairs because they have no clue what happened, they just
rebooted. :-)

>>REGULAR DELAY FOR ME:
>>
>>May  2 04:04:17 MailScanner sendmail[19765]: i42942m4019765:
>>to=<cjackson at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30263,
>>stat=queued

Don't look at these since it's the receiving end (stat=queued), not the
delivering one.

>>HI DELAY:
>>I'm guessing that its high here because of the connection refused by,
>>which I don't know what that means.
>>May  2 04:10:36 MailScanner sendmail[19923]: i428lEm4019071:
>>to=<spam at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:23:22, xdelay=00:00:00,
>
> mailer=esmtp,
>
>>pri=300394, relay=[10.1.1.2], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
>>refused by [10.1.1.2]

These are the ones you should look at for delay times (stat=sent or
stat=deferred). This (deferred) just means that they need to reboot it
again. It's not a problem at your end.

--
/Peter Bonivart

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