Hi Gang,
I'm seeing what to me is the weirdest thing with sendmail on one of
my hosts. My firewall machine, to be exact.
It seems that sendmail never manages to connect to the mail server on
its own (mailq claims "connection refused"). However, sendmail -qf
processes all messages successfully without a hitch, as the following
terminal transcript demonstrates:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] calls]# mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hello!
My name is GUNS!
.
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] calls]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient-----------
kBCKMsck001138 17 Tue Dec 12 15:22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Deferred: Connection refused by strutmasters.net.)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Total requests: 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] calls]# sendmail -qf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] calls]# mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] calls]#
Why wouldn't the same thing that's resulting in "connection refused" on
the first attempt (and truly on any non-manually-induced attempt; mail
from frontgate NEVER gets delivered unless I issue a sendmail -q on it)
result in "connection refused" when I do sendmail -q?
I'm sure it's probably something simple that I just don't know. Clearly
the mail server (strutmasters.net, which is internal and has an entry in
frontgate's /etc/hosts file) is not actually refusing connections from
frontgate.
This is only a problem inasmuch as it means I don't get logwatch from
frontgate like I'm supposed to. (And frontgate's mailq grows a bit
geometrically as each message is deferred, and then the deferral notice
gets deferred, and then the notice that the deferral notice got
defferred gets deferred, and...) frontgate doesn't process any other mail.
TIA for all tips!
Cheers,
~Brian
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Brian A. Henning
strutmasters.com
336.597.2397x238
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