RE: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
|> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
|> Terrance Dwyer
|> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 2:03 PM
|> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|> Subject: [cobalt-users] (no subject)
|> 
|> 
|> I've been receiving an admin alert that indicates sendmail 
|> isn't functioning.  It's happended a few tims now and it 
|> appears to restart during the next alert cycle (15 minutes) 
|> but the last time it was down for 8 hours (overnight) before 
|> it restarted. This does not occur during heavy loads.  POP 
|> and IMAP continue to function. I see nothing unusal in the 
|> logs. I have Solarspeed's firewall installed and Sendmail 
|> patches 16402 and 16429 installed.  Does anyone have an idea 
|> as to why this might be occuring.
|> 
|> Thanks
|> 
|> Terry Dwyer
|> 
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When this happened to our server, it turned out tons of spam were being
relayed through the server because we did not have Pop Before SMTP
working properly. Just a thought.

Cheers
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