load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram ..
wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ... exim and postfix didn't give any useful errors either:( nate Damian Menscher wrote: > > Random idea: sendmail will defer mail if the load on the machine is too > high. Maybe you had several hung processes that finally timed out? > > Damian > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my > > system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs > > yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts and both > > arrived without being deferred. > > > > thats a big relief. maybe the DNS on that machine was out of whack and > > needed time to re synch. > > > > maybe santa cracked into my machine and fixed it or something..it is that > > time of the year ............. > > > > nate > > > > ::: > > http://www.aphroland.org/ > > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 9:38am up 81 days, 18:56, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:34:28 -0800 > > From: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: all mail getting deferred > > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:57:05 -0800 > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > very curious problem here, before i goto sleep i think i need to post to > > see if anyone knows what is goin on. > > > > i have one of my servers here on a fast DSL line, static ip, both > > forward and reverse DNS working, i even have a MX record pointed at it > > for one of my domains(linuxpowered.net), however all mail to it gets > > deferred by sendmail. I have also tried Postfix and exim and got similar > > results(mail would arrive but not get delivered. since it seems to be a > > generic mail issue i prefer to stick to sendmail on this as that is what > > i've been using for years(what i know ...at least i think i know). > > forcing the sendmail queue results in: > > > > Running VAA08195 (sequence 7 of 11) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to local... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred > > > > for each of the messages, everything, localhost email, real domain email > > ..alternate vhost email everything is deferred. the real domain for this > > machine is portal.aphroland.org/216.39.174.24, i pointed the MX of > > linuxpowered.net to see if it was isolated for 1 domain and it is not. > > sendmail is configured to accept mail for both domains(and more), > > everything seems fine .. portal.aphroland.org has a A record for it ..i > > can send mail to it, sendmail accepts it, just refuses to deliver. .. > > > > i don't think it is related but earlier tonight i installed cyrus imapd > > to test it out, is there anything special to get sendmail to deliver to > > cyrus ?? when i saw incoming mail wasn't going to cyrus i re-ran > > sendmailconfig, at that point i noticed the domain i was using was no > > longer valid, so i updated to reflect the new domainname and have been > > having this deferred problem ever since. > > > > one thing about my domain aphroland.org, one of the nameservers is no > > longer valid(ns3.aphroland.org) however that does not pose any kind of a > > problem when sending mail to @aphroland.org so i can't see why it could > > possibly interfere with @portal.aphroland.org. I have even tried to set > > a MX for portal.aphroland.org with the same results ..something on my > > system is misconfigured ...i compared it to my main server > > (/etc/mailname and sendmail options) and they are almost identical ..... > > > > any ideas ?? > > > > tia! > > > > nate > > > > -- > > ::: > > ICQ: 75132336 > > http://www.aphroland.org/ > > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Damian Menscher > -- > --==## Grad. student & Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- > --==## <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- > --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==-- -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
