From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 16:25:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA89837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D3343FAF for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost.st.hmc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2P0PM67032692; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h2P0PMPL032689; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:22 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail questions In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030324151034.00b8a940@mail.pragma.no> Message-ID: <20030324161816.J32652-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Virus-Scanned: by unixconsults.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,X_AUTH_WARNING autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Wider=F8e Andersen wrote: > I've got two questions: > > 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers > (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did > not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in > my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this > morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me > what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long > problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8. I see "errors" like this when people telnet to port 25 and don't do anything (usually me, checking the version in the banner that's printed). It's not usually a problem, and I would guess is probably not related to sendmail dying. Can you simply restart sendmail ("sendmail -bd -q1h" and "sendmail -Ac -q1h"), or will it not restart? > 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent > from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manuall= y > send these mails off later? Run "sendmail -Ac -q1h". This will scan /var/spool/clientmqueue every hour and flush out anything that's there. If I had a 4.x box around here, I could give you better instructions to make it start at boot (in 5.0, sendmail_msp_queue_enable defaults to YES, and rc starts that daemon; I'm not sure how 4.x handles it). - Jeff Jirsa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message