On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Widerĝe Andersen wrote: > I've got two questions: > > 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers > (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did > not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in > my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this > morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me > what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long > problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8.
I see "errors" like this when people telnet to port 25 and don't do anything (usually me, checking the version in the banner that's printed). It's not usually a problem, and I would guess is probably not related to sendmail dying. Can you simply restart sendmail ("sendmail -bd -q1h" and "sendmail -Ac -q1h"), or will it not restart? > 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent > from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manually > send these mails off later? Run "sendmail -Ac -q1h". This will scan /var/spool/clientmqueue every hour and flush out anything that's there. If I had a 4.x box around here, I could give you better instructions to make it start at boot (in 5.0, sendmail_msp_queue_enable defaults to YES, and rc starts that daemon; I'm not sure how 4.x handles it). - Jeff Jirsa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message