RE: [cobalt-users] sendmail probs

["Manny Tau" <mtau@xxxxxxx>]

POP before SMTP is enabled. Just turned it off, save, then back on, and
saved.
No joy.

Initially, I revised the 550's sendmail.cf with this RBL addition:
"A manual update in sendmail.cf to reject email from open relay servers
which are commonly used by spammers.  Review
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2002-August/076672.html.";

Got an Active Monitor email about 3 hours later of:
* There is a severe problem with the email system.
  - The SMTP server is not running and could not be restarted. The SMTP
server may shut itself down temporarily under extreme load. Check the CPU
load on the server. If the load does not appear to be the problem, go to the
Server Desktop and try turning the SMTP server off then on again to see if
this corrects the problem. If the SMTP server is still unable to start, try
rebooting the server itself by clicking the Reboot Now button in the Power
menu under System Settings.

Then 15 minutes later, got:
* The email system is operating normally.
  - The SMTP server is operating normally.
  - The POP server is operating normally.

Figuring this hiccup had something to do with the sendmail.cf change, I
reverted back to the version before the change.

Since then, can't seem to send out email via MS Outlook. Error message
saying TCP/IP connection unexpectedly terminated by server. Been double
checking various things, and don't know why this is now having probs, which
wasn't the case before I changed the sendmail.cf with the RBL addition.

Is there a smtp config file I can check into?
Odd stuff...

Manny

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Kriwitsky
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:14 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] sendmail probs


> Can receive emails.
> But can't send. Getting a message "TCP/IP connection
> unexpectedly terminated by server" message in Outlook.
> Sending emails from Openwebmail works.
>
> Rebooted the 550. Still no joy with sending emails from
> Outlook, no probs before the sendmail.cf change.
>
> Anything else I should do in shell, have I missed something?

Are you sure you have POP before SMTP enabled? Although I thought the
error would be "relaying denied" in that case. But I'm not familiar with
the 550.

Run tail -f /var/log/maillog next time you try to send to see what error
the server is giving.
--
C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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