Hello,
I run the Atlanta, GA, USA cell (+1770 +1404 and +1678) and I recently
switched ISPs. Now sendmail dies a lot. It seems to connect with the
server it needs to send mail to, then hangs with the 'user open'.
Apparently it will hang forever like that, but it doesn't hang with every
user - some of them actually go through. I can't distinguish a pattern.
I know that I need to reconfigure something in sendmail, but I don't know
exactly what... I've replaced all the references to my old ISP with
references to my new ISP, but there was no reference to the old ISP's SMTP
server (I couldn't find one, at least).
If I shut down sendmail and kill off all the open processes then restart
sendmail it will simply try to re-send all the stuff that it didn't send
before, and it hangs in the same place...
Obviously there's something I'm missing here - I'm certain it's simple, but
I'm not a sendmail expert at all... Anyone got any ideas?
Here is the output from a `ps- -ax | grep sendmail` command:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
8261 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
9367 ? S 0:00 sendmail: VAA09365 mx2.mail.yahoo.com.: user open
9442 ? S 0:00 sendmail: WAA09439 mx2.mail.yahoo.com.: user open
9550 ? S 0:00 sendmail: WAA09548 mx2.mail.yahoo.com.: user open
9798 ? S 0:00 sendmail: WAA09460 bjmx3.163.net.: user open
9800 ? S 0:00 sendmail: WAA09604 mc7.law5.hotmail.com.: user open
And here's the output from the `mailq` command:
Mail Queue (5 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
WAA09439* 812 Fri Oct 6 22:04 uucp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WAA09604* 821 Fri Oct 6 22:50 uucp
(Deferred: Connection timed out with mc5.law5.hotmail.com.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
VAA09365* 1419 Fri Oct 6 21:59 uucp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WAA09548* 2960 Fri Oct 6 22:41 uucp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WAA09460* 828 Fri Oct 6 22:09 uucp
(Deferred: Connection timed out with bjmx3.163.net.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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