Connection Deferred

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at woodmclaw.com
Tue May 22 18:23:27 IST 2007


Another update.  I did find another setting in there "Limit number of
messages per connection to:".  That was set to 20, so I raised it to
200.  Hopefully that will take care of it.  Thank you a bunch as there
is hope!

Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:25 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Connection Deferred
> 
> Good suggestion.  I am finally going through the emails here and see
> your response to mine.  I will most defiantly check this option as I
am
> getting tired of it happening.  Thank you.
> 
> Billy Pumphrey
> IT Manager
> Wooden & McLaughlin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Seamus Allan
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:24 PM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: Re: Connection Deffered
> >
> > I had a similar problem with my receiving mail server behind a
> > MailScanner gateway. Turned out I just needed to turn up the number
of
> > connections per minute on the smtp on the mail server so that it
> didn't
> > think the Mailscanner machine was flooding it.
> > I don't know if this is the case with Exchange, but perhaps gives
you
> > something to look at?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Seamus.
> >
> > Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> > > I am hoping someone is willing to help me with this.  I thought
that
> I
> > > had the problem fixed but maybe not.  I believe that current
> incoming
> > > email is coming through MailScanner and to the Exchange server.
The
> > > problem is that ther are about 650 emails that will not go
through.
> I
> > > get this:
> > >
> > > Command:
> > > sendmail -v -bp -OQueueDirectory=//var/spool/mqueue
> > >
> > > Result (about 650 of these):
> > > l4FL9c8I028182   998389    6606332+May 15 17:09
<mraines at locke.com>
> > >                  (Deferred: Connection refused by [10.1.1.22])
> > >
> > > <RINSELBERG at woodmclaw.com>
> > >
> > > I have sendmail, Cent OS 4.4.
> > >
> > > I have not changed anything before this started happening.  I
> restarted
> > > the Exchange server and that is allowing the new emails to come
> through
> > > ( I think, I will see for sure if this reaches the list during the
> > > problem phase).
> > >
> > > Please advise :)
> > > Thank you
> > >
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