HELP - URGENT !! cannot receive email

[WizmanG]

my Scalix server has been running for well over a month and all of a sudden I cannot reveive any email. I am running on the latest CentOS and did an update on Saturday but it was running fine up untill this afternoon.

here is some info from /var/log/mail showing the problem, everything is being refused

Oct 9 22:46:11 mail sendmail[6483]: k9A2k4IX006483: from=<antalkalis@northcarolinabed.com>, size=3883, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<000001c6ec15$23755c00$0100007f@localhost>, proto=ESMTP, relay=root@localhost
Oct 9 22:46:11 mail sendmail[6483]: k9A2k4IX006483: to=<SOMEUSER@karibe.com>, delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=33883, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

I was searching the forums and someone wanted to see the results of lsof -i :25.

[root@mail gene]# lsof -i :25
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
omsmtpd 3508 root 3u IPv4 14022 TCP mail.karibe.com:smtp->24-178-119-211.dhcp.nwnn.ga.charter.com:3457 (ESTABLISHED)
omsmtpd 3508 root 4u IPv4 7353 TCP mail.karibe.com:smtp (LISTEN)

I have no idea where 24-178-119-211.dhcp.nwnn.ga.charter.com:3457 (ESTABLISHED) is coming from but I checked with DNSSTUFF.COM and the ip address shows up in a spam database lookup.


I checked all my config files and nothing looks out of the ordinary

ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!

[Derek]

With that lsof command you should see that sendmail is listening on localhost. So it looks like sendmail went down, just fire it back up and you should be ok.

[WizmanG]

sendmail was listening on port 26. Don't know how it got chnaged but it took a while to track it down.

Thanks for the help..