Re: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

["Jason M. Weber" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> |> 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.

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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.

How did you get your POP before SMTP working again?

~ Jason