Re: [cobalt-users] Outoing SMTP dead - Incoming POP appears OK

["C Burchell" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In addition to the stuff below (btw...thanks for the reply Gerald) there is
now another error... I got an email this morning from the RAQ that said:

"The SMTP (mail) server appears to be down. The mail server may shut itself
down temporarily under extreme load, so you should also check the CPU load
on the server. If the load does not appear to be the problem, try turning
mail service off and then on within the Cobalt server Control Panel to see
if this corrects the problem. If not, try rebooting the server itself. If
this still does not correct the problem, contact Cobalt Technical Support."

Hmmm.... I seem to recall somone spoke of this error before, but I can't
seem to find the article...

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Outoing SMTP dead - Incoming POP appears OK


> > I do not know sendmail very well, but a quick glance at mailq reveals a
> > whole ton of messages with a whole bunch of (host map:  lookup
(domain.com);
> > deferred) error messages.  There are 4 mail queues under
> > var/spool/mqueue  - all of which are full of 50-200 messages in each   -
all
> > with the same error.
>
> What is the error?
>

The error in all the messages is similar to the following:

f8QIhCI22479     2718 Wed Sep 26 12:46 <cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                 (host map: lookup (burchellfamily.ca): deferred)
                                       <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> > There were some minor DNS RR changes made recently as a result of an ISP
IP
> > change, but these changes should have all propogated by now - nslookup
and
> > ping tests of many name servers (and from diff. ISP networks) reveal
this is
> > true.
> >
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
> OR
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail hard-restart
>

Tried both - no luck.

> You also should try
> ps ax | grep sendmail
>  2158 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
> You should see something like the above!

This is what I get:

 5849 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections


>
> Gerald
>
>
>