153 will not deliever from the Outbound

[mikea]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:47:28AM -0400, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:30 AM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: 153 will not deliever from the Outbound
> > 
> > Well I created a little mess for myself.  I configured the Exchange
> > machine some with filtering and it was blocking some emails.  The
> > maillog would say this:
> > 
> > Aug 18 07:47:34 WoodenMS2 sendmail[2677]: k7IBlMHk002635:
> > to=<cbutler at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:00:12, xdelay=00:00:00,
> > mailer=esmtp, pri=121593, relay=[10.1.1.22] [10.1.1.22], dsn=4.0.0,
> > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [10.1.1.22]
> > 
> > So seemingly the ones that got the connection refused message are
> being
> > held in MailScanner.
> > 
> > I configured exchanges rules, and I no longer get these messages and
> all
> > email is not getting rejected.  The Outbound used to be about 300 and
> > seemingly they were all going to get delivered until it stuck on 153,
> > well 152 now.  (minus one email in about 10 minutes)
> > 
> > Am I missing something to get MailScanner to deliver these emails?
> > 
> 
> I was trying to do some things to see the emails.  My inbound and
> outbound are the default /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/mqueue.in
> 
> Will someone give me some tips on how to manually manipulate the emails?
> My Inbound and Outbound links in MailWatch show nothing on the page so I
> am not able to see what is in them.  
> 
> How does someone copy/move the emails from mqueue into a mailbox so that
> one can sift through them?  As I am wanting to see what is in these
> emails because people are wondering about specific emails and I want to
> at least make sure that I got them.

You can sift through them with the "less" command, and the "mailq"
command will give you information about the status of the mails on the
default queue. To see the status of the mails on mqueue.in, you have
to get a little more creative:

sendmail -v -bp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in

as root. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin