Please help queue is filling up with no end in sight!

[ianare]

Hey,

After installing spamassassin according to the instruction in the KB, I keep on getting these errors:

#tail /var/log/maillog
Sep 19 19:29:28 mail sendmail[6147]: k8JN00hC004938: to=<XXX@lorientech.com>, delay=00:29:28, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=392739, relay=lorientech.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by lorientech.com.

but some are OK:

Sep 19 19:32:25 mail sendmail[6207]: k8JNWOv1006207: to=<YYY@lorientech.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=39209, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k8JNWPsp006208 Message accepted for delivery)

and...

# mailq -c
---snip----
Total requests: 2734

the mailq is filling up rather fast. I lloked around the forums, the KB but could not fix it. It looks like outgoing mail is OK.

fedora core 4, scalix 10.

Your help would be much appreciated!!

[dkelly]

What's your status at the moment ? Please realise that we don't provide any emergency response in the forums. If you need assistance like this, I'd suggest you open a support incident.

The log examples you posted are for different addresses and for different parts of Sendmail.

Sendmail has a MSA and a MTA. The MSA takes local messages submitted via the command line and will send the to the MTA via port 25 on 127.0.0.1. The second snippet shows this working.

The MTA is responsible for routing the messages on to other servers. I can see that you are getting Connection Refused messages when sending to that particular domain. That means nothing is listening on port 25 for that server.

You don't explain what you have set up or how your routing is configured. What MX records are there for the problem domain ?

Cheers

Dave

[ianare]

Nevermind I figured it out. Seems I just needed a good night's sleep I had made changes to the senmail.mc file and compiled it, but did not run the omsendin command afterwards.