[cobalt-users] RE: the SMTP (mail) server is not responding

["Adrian Boismoreau" <aboismoreau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Craig, I've done it already. Hope it works on my RaQ3.
Anyway I think the best solution is not letting users to relay through my
SMTP.

Adrian Boismoreau

>
> Hi,
> I've been receiving a message with subject: "the SMTP (mail) server is not
> responding"


Heres how I fixed that on my RAQ3 it means that there are  too many sendmail
process running eg to much mail process are trying to start and its refusing
connections

I edited the sendmail.cf in the /etc

Chnaged
# load average at which we just queue messages
#O QueueLA=15
O QueueLA=25

 load average at which we refuse connections
#O RefuseLA=20
O RefuseLA=40

# maximum number of children we allow at one time
#O MaxDaemonChildren=12
O MaxDaemonChildren=24


This fixed it for me
then restart sendmail

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

hope this helps