Hello
I have a truly annoying and urgent problem with sendmail. Particularly
bigger mails containing attachments cannot be delivered. They always end
up sitting around in the queue with I/O errors, after unsuccessful
attempt of delivery.
On the system, there are many sendmail processes up, yet there is no
activity towards the internet.
# mailq
Mail Queue (4 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
LAA22085 150805 Mon Aug 28 11:18 MAILER-DAEMON
(I/O error: Input/output error)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HAA21130 148476 Mon Aug 28 07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
8BITMIME (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
WAA17490 249014 Sat Aug 26 22:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
8BITMIME (I/O error)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
QAA16860* 246703 Sat Aug 26 16:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
8BITMIME (I/O error)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I do not know what to do about this one. A fsck didn't change anything,
nor did rebooting / restarting the services. The machine has a cable
modem connection to the Internet and any other type of traffic from / to
the Internet goes smooth.
A verbose debug run shows:
~ # sendmail -vvvvvvvvvvv -q
Running LAA22085 (sequence 1 of 4)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Connecting to mail.provider.com. via relay...
220 mail.provider.com ESMTP server (Post.Office v3.5.3 release 223 ID#
127-58610
U1000L100S0V35) ready Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:23:52 +0200
>>> EHLO mail.ourdomain.com
250-mail.provider.com
250-HELP
250-EXPN
250-XREMOTEQUEUE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250 SIZE 52428800
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=150895
250 Sender <> and extensions (SIZE=150895) Ok
>>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok
>>> DATA
354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I/O error
Waah! It takes ages until the final "I/O error" appears.
Any help *greatly* welcomed. Please *do* CC me.
Thanks
Sven Burgener
