Hi Suresh, Thanks for the reply. I tried this, but still the mail status gives "deferred". Couldn't collect much information from the syslog also. I am attaching some portion of the mail.log. External mails are going normally. Only local mails are creating problem, which I doubt may be due to some problems with maildrop. The configuration was working fine for quite a long time and suddenly only the problem came.
Any specific method to debug maildrop ? Regards, Binu Sep 9 11:20:43 mail sendmail[545]: OAB17557: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+20:57:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=server4.american-giveaways.com., stat=Deferred: Connection refused by server4.american-giveaways.com. Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: SAA15967: to=binu, delay=3+17:06:28, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA00462: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:34:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA00416: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:56:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA00361: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=01:18:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA00376: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=01:16:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA00364: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=01:24:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: PAA17648: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+20:08:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: MAA17322: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+23:29:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA17204: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+00:35:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA17188: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+00:42:34, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA17146: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+01:11:43, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: KAA17147: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+01:11:43, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: SAA15986: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+16:50:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: RAA15866: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+18:18:48, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: PAA15717: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+19:36:35, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: OAA15677: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+20:34:44, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: MAA15552: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+23:07:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: MAA15543: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=3+23:25:47, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: LAA15504: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1000/1000), delay=3+23:46:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: OAA17557: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+21:06:35, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=server4.american-giveaways.com., stat=Deferred: Connection refused by server4.american-giveaways.com. Sep 9 11:29:29 mail sendmail[567]: OAB17557: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+21:05:48, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=server4.american-giveaways.com., stat=Deferred: Connection refused by server4.american-giveaways.com. --- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Binu R [9/9/2003 8:31 AM] : > > > I am using maildrop + sendmail on a mail server > > running debian potato. It was working fine for > more > > than 8 months and suddenly for the past few days, > > mails are not getting delivered(local only). > External > > mails are getting transferred. Mail log and syslog > > shows only status as deferred. If I am disabling > local > > mailer in sendmail, mails are getting delivered to > the > > usual /var/spool/<user> files. While compiling > > maildrop, I have used the option --enable-sylog=1. > I > > am using Maidir format for my mailboxes. > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v ... force the queue and > make it run manually. > > See what you get. > > And post some logs. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
