Dear All I have reported this very intermittent problem before where sendmail reports errors of the type
Jun 24 13:10:57 brooks sendmail[28340]: l5O3TvJl027795: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:10:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dspam, pri=211603, relay=localhost, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by localhost The emails build in the queue awaiting delivery. I suspected it was the problem was in DSPAM connecting to the MySQL database. My fix was to disable DSPAM processing and enable it 4 or 6 hours later. Since this happened on the weekend I had a closer look and what I noticed was that there was only one dspam process running. Normally there are two or more dspam processes running with the minimum being two. Since I use freedt to monitor the dspam daemon I killed the dspam process - after repeating this several times it started to work. Below is a clip from pstree showing dspam processes 6127, 6158 and 32765 - this snapshot was taken as emails were being processed. In the error state there is only the primary process running eg 6127. When not delivering/processing emails only 6127 and 6158 are running. Any idea as to the fix to make the second process activate/spawn and accept connections. Using dspam-3.8.0, sendmail-8.14.1 and Cyrus-imap-2.3.8 Thanks Stephen Carr |-supervise,30831 /service | `-run,6126 ./run | |-dspam,6127 --daemon | | `-dspam,6158 --daemon | | `-dspam,32765 --daemon | `-logger,6128 -t dspam -p daemon.notice -- Stephen Carr Computing Officer School of Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of Adelaide Tel +618-8303-4313 Fax +618-8303-4359 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s)and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient.
