Non-ending processes

[Steve Campbell]

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Quoting Kai Schaetzl <maillists at CONACTIVE.COM>:

> Steve Campbell wrote on         Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:56:02 -0500:
> 
> > I have waited for these processes to finish normally, but they never seem
> to 
> > complete.
> 
> This is not an MS problem. I speculate that you do not any or just a bit of 
> rejection at MTA level? It's quite common that spamming machines do not work
> 
> correctly and have all sorts of problems with starting up an SMTP connection.
> 
> If you are hit by this the best way to cope with it is to issue a killall 
> sendmail before you restart ms/sendmail. If you use strict measures who you 
> allow to send mail to you you can reduce this very much, although not to
> zero.
> 
> Kai
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Kai,

Thanks,

I kinda figured there were bad things happening with sendmail due to the low
process numbers and the "Data Read" part of the ps listing. I just thought
sendmail was supposed to do the killall. Guess not.

I block as much as I can determine should be truly blocked, but mostly at our
firewall. This leaves a lot to be desired as the MTA could probably do a little
more generic testing than just by IPs. 

I haven't put any milters on, and a lot of the sendmail parameters don't seem to
apply to a lot of overall crap, but I guess a little here, a little there would,
 add up.

I will try the killall the next time and see how that goes.

Thanks again.

Steve

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