Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred
load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a
k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram ..
wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ...
exim and postfix didn't give any useful errors either:(
nate
Damian Menscher wrote:
>
> Random idea: sendmail will defer mail if the load on the machine is too
> high. Maybe you had several hung processes that finally timed out?
>
> Damian
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, nate@firetrail.com wrote:
>
> > I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my
> > system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs
> > yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts and both
> > arrived without being deferred.
> >
> > thats a big relief. maybe the DNS on that machine was out of whack and
> > needed time to re synch.
> >
> > maybe santa cracked into my machine and fixed it or something..it is that
> > time of the year .............
> >
> > nate
> >
> > :::
> > http://www.aphroland.org/
> > http://www.linuxpowered.net/
> > aphro@aphroland.org
> > 9:38am up 81 days, 18:56, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:34:28 -0800
> > From: Nate Amsden <aphro@aphroland.org>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: all mail getting deferred
> > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:57:05 -0800
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
> > very curious problem here, before i goto sleep i think i need to post to
> > see if anyone knows what is goin on.
> >
> > i have one of my servers here on a fast DSL line, static ip, both
> > forward and reverse DNS working, i even have a MX record pointed at it
> > for one of my domains(linuxpowered.net), however all mail to it gets
> > deferred by sendmail. I have also tried Postfix and exim and got similar
> > results(mail would arrive but not get delivered. since it seems to be a
> > generic mail issue i prefer to stick to sendmail on this as that is what
> > i've been using for years(what i know ...at least i think i know).
> > forcing the sendmail queue results in:
> >
> > Running VAA08195 (sequence 7 of 11)
> > aphro@localhost... Connecting to local...
> > aphro@localhost... Deferred
> >
> > for each of the messages, everything, localhost email, real domain email
> > ..alternate vhost email everything is deferred. the real domain for this
> > machine is portal.aphroland.org/216.39.174.24, i pointed the MX of
> > linuxpowered.net to see if it was isolated for 1 domain and it is not.
> > sendmail is configured to accept mail for both domains(and more),
> > everything seems fine .. portal.aphroland.org has a A record for it ..i
> > can send mail to it, sendmail accepts it, just refuses to deliver. ..
> >
> > i don't think it is related but earlier tonight i installed cyrus imapd
> > to test it out, is there anything special to get sendmail to deliver to
> > cyrus ?? when i saw incoming mail wasn't going to cyrus i re-ran
> > sendmailconfig, at that point i noticed the domain i was using was no
> > longer valid, so i updated to reflect the new domainname and have been
> > having this deferred problem ever since.
> >
> > one thing about my domain aphroland.org, one of the nameservers is no
> > longer valid(ns3.aphroland.org) however that does not pose any kind of a
> > problem when sending mail to @aphroland.org so i can't see why it could
> > possibly interfere with @portal.aphroland.org. I have even tried to set
> > a MX for portal.aphroland.org with the same results ..something on my
> > system is misconfigured ...i compared it to my main server
> > (/etc/mailname and sendmail options) and they are almost identical .....
> >
> > any ideas ??
> >
> > tia!
> >
> > nate
> >
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> > aphro@aphroland.org
> >
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