Tomasz, > May 22 15:46:24 statek sendmail[14281]: k4MDkN1J014281: > from=<>, size=3019, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, > relay=smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31] > May 22 15:46:24 statek sendmail[14281]: k4MDkN1J014281: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
Looks like normal activity - someone sending via the Wanadoo server in France is attempting to send you lots of mail for an unknown user, and your system is correctly processing them and returning the user unknown error. If there are a lot of these, you will run out of slaves and/or Sendmail resources and start rejecting mail connections, which is normal behaviour to avoid killing your system. The key fact here is that you are seeing lots of messages to this address, but all with different message IDs - in your post, the "lsof" listing shows this: /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkN1J014281/HEADERS (deleted) /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkN1J014281/COMMANDS (deleted) /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkNAw014242/HEADERS (deleted) /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkNAw014242/COMMANDS (deleted) /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkNfs014278/HEADERS /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-k4MDkNfs014278/COMMANDS There are three messages IDs here (the parts starting k4MDkN...), and this slave has processed all three - I'm not sure why the old file handles are still shown as active, but if they are cleaned up later, I'd not worry about it. Best Wishes, Paul. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 22/05/2006 _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang