greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated.
i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into which i moved teh whole scsi harddisk ssubsystem (card and drives) ther it ran v 2.2.5-r faultlessly untill last january when i cleaned of teh hard drives reformated averything and installed freebsd v6.2-release !! than after a few weeks of settling down and setting up every thing worked well, as expected, then the sendmail nightmares started ... basically the system could not send mail anywhere !!! cutting long story short, it was basically my having to relearn teh whole universe .. there were more differences than i had planned for and it was an uphill battle relearning essentially everything i had learned about freebsd over th previous ten years. about 3 weeks ago things started to make sence, herebouts, slowly it is clearing up, as i started to understand sendmail and getting teh configurations right .. most of teh poorly configured hosts i've now cleaned up and are working properly, but, one ... i have now got one left and like teh linux chappie who i found on google who had a similar "out of teh blue experience" like mine, (about 2003) one day sendmail worked then teh veyr next it was defereing everytingh .. just like here. this chappie had replaced his nic, i've not done angthiny like that hppen here, the machine is the machine and no hardware has been changed ?? i donot understand what is going on here .. i've included all teh differnt bits in teh maillog file here is teh /var/log/maillog exerpt Jun 9 00:00:00 reality newsyslog[15991]: logfile turned over Jun 9 03:01:05 reality sendmail[16485]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: from=root, size=12938, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=42938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: from=root, size=137243, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=167243, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:13, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=132938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=257243, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8l013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3644350, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8m013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3768123, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6qfr013304: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:57, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4542984, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6u1Q013363: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4666757, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56MMWd3009824: to=root, delay=1+18:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=7861512, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd3009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8054226, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd4009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8177393, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56ILDAU009315: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+22:45:36, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8670146, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56H6f3Y009045: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8952860, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56H6jhg009104: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=9076027, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m564qJd3006478: to=jlm, delay=2+12:14:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=11111854, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m560pgSA005674: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=jlm (1001/1001), delay=2+16:15:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=11920494, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m55LAINO005198: to=root, delay=2+19:56:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=12571102, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m55LAINP005198: to=root, delay=2+19:56:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=12676645, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m55H6mA6004634: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=3+00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=13469736, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m55H6rEw004692: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+23:59:56, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=13575279, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I5vr000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:48:27, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16413061, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I5tA000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:48:34, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16414081, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I5Bx000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:47:51, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16414249, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I54R000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:48:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16414653, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I5uH000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:48:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16414849, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m550I52r000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+16:48:13, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16416465, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address lots trimmmmmmed Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=03:04:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=762938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=03:04:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=887243, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m57LAP8l013868: to=root, delay=23:00:18, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4274350, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m57LAP8m013868: to=root, delay=23:00:18, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4398123, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m57H6qfr013304: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+03:03:51, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=5172984, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m57H6u1Q013363: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+03:03:47, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=5296757, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56MMWd3009824: to=root, delay=1+21:48:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8491512, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56LMVd3009703: to=root, delay=1+22:48:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8684226, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56LMVd4009703: to=root, delay=1+22:48:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8807393, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56ILDAU009315: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+01:49:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=9300146, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56H6f3Y009045: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+03:04:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=9582860, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m56H6jhg009104: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+03:03:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=9706027, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m564qJd3006478: to=jlm, delay=2+15:18:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=11741854, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m560pgSA005674: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=jlm (1001/1001), delay=2+19:19:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=12550494, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m55LAINO005198: to=root, delay=2+23:00:25, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=13201102, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m55LAINP005198: to=root, delay=2+23:00:25, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=13306645, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m55H6mA6004634: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=3+03:03:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=14099736, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m55H6rEw004692: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=3+03:03:50, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=14205279, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 06:10:43 reality sm-msp-queue[17859]: m550I5vr000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+19:52:21, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17043061, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address some 5 mb repetative log entries removed .. Jun 9 09:42:35 reality sm-msp-queue[622]: m550I50f000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:24:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17806561, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 09:42:35 reality sm-msp-queue[622]: m550I5vJ000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:24:14, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17807047, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 09:42:35 reality sm-msp-queue[622]: m550I5tL000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:24:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17807590, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m58LAi8l017980: to=root, delay=03:01:40, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=584304, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: 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mailer=relay, pri=9527393, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m56ILDAU009315: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+05:51:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=10020146, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m56H6f3Y009045: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+07:05:43, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=10302860, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m56H6jhg009104: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+07:05:39, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=10426027, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m564qJd3006478: to=jlm, delay=2+19:20:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=12461854, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 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mailer=relay, pri=14925279, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m550I5vr000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:54:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17763061, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m550I5tA000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:54:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17764081, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 10:12:24 reality sm-msp-queue[1077]: m550I5Bx000621: to=postmaster, delay=3+23:53:26, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=17764249, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:10:52 reality sm-msp-queue[1245]: m550I53u000621: to=postmaster, delay=4+01:52:13, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=18346025, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:10:52 reality sm-msp-queue[1245]: m550I5tK000621: to=postmaster, delay=4+01:52:36, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=18346379, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:10:52 reality sm-msp-queue[1245]: m550I50f000621: to=postmaster, delay=4+01:52:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=18346561, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:10:52 reality sm-msp-queue[1245]: m550I5vJ000621: to=postmaster, delay=4+01:52:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=18347047, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:10:52 reality sm-msp-queue[1245]: m550I5tL000621: to=postmaster, delay=4+01:52:36, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=18347590, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 12:17:07 reality sendmail[1280]: m592H7UK001280: from=jlm, size=483, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 12:17:07 reality sendmail[1280]: m592H7UK001280: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=jlm (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30483, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address this last entry was the resutl of teh post test after adding 'SMART_HOST' 'mail.caamora.com.au' in teh freebsd.mc/sendmail.mc and a 'make install' to cover all bases. i treied to restart teh mailqueue ... no luck .. grrr and then an entry into the mailertable . esmpt:mail.caamora.com.au again did the make whatever thingie and ... tried to post, again this defered post business .. can't asign .. there is something going on here that i donot understand .. some enlightenment would be appreciated, please. the few bits i found in yahoosearch engine, google resfuses me access still but yahoo i can use. i looked uo the error message and turned up this one endrt refereing to teh linux incedent, i have a copy of bat book ed 1 it just says it exists, same for smart_host mail_hub macros. is there some way to fix this short of upgrading and mvoing to postfix ?? i don't have teh needed stuff to do that just yet (me and hardware issues) it looks like i've missed somethings but i don't know enough about freebsd v6.x to know even where to start to look for this one .. aside from this i have another v6.2 host that also was doing the same thing but after i copied a working set of sendmail configs and restarted sendmail it work properly except teh it dosent forward the "charlie root" mail from teh maintenece events (at 2 am. 3 am and 4 am from teh /etc/cron events) the mail itesm just sit in teh /var/mail/root folder it has taken me just under 6 mnths to get this far, i've come to teh end of my rope and am seriously thinking of going back to freebsd v2.2.5 .. regards/appreciations/much graciousnessess jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. 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