Re: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages
--- Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kris, > > thanks for your attempts, but I'm not sure you > understand what I mean... I understand, you have a lot of files in clientmque and you want to send them out. Thus the submission of what I found in google. > I cannot run a queue manually on these messages > because sendmail thinks > they are permanent errors. So any queue runs on > these messages produce > nothing. Check your maillog by the way and see what it says about the messages. Found something else (It talks about requeuing things and offers a script)- http://www.patoche.org/LTT/daemon/0073.html > On this box we don't run a sendmail daemon. We only > relay mail to > another server when the sendmail daemon gets called. > That is why those > messages are in the clientmqueue dir instead of the > regular mqueue dir. > > My real issue is that I now have these bunch of > messages that won't get > processed, because sendmail assumes they are > permanent failures. > > The q files are named with a capital Q in front of > them, is this why > they are ignored ? I happen to have a stuck message. So I'll see if I can get the bugger sent off. Okay, I renamed the little beast from Qf to qf and sendmail whined about it being invalid or something. So I poked around in the mqueue directory. In it I found two files: dfk2VKp7im043605 (This is the body of the email) qfk2VKp7im043605 (This is the sender stuff) Unless you have the associated df file then it's lost. But to veryify look inside a Qf file and see what turns up. If you don't see the body of a message then it looks like it is lost. > Is there any one who knows how to revert and > re-submit these messages ??? YAY! I did it! backup your files first! I took the above files, hopeing that the df & Qf pair were there, in this case they were. If not already shut down, turn off the queue from /etc/mail with a make stop-mspq Did I mention that it's a good idea at this point to backup your queue? Back it up. Rename all the Qf files to qf (or to test, just a df qf pair) ensure that group permissions are rw (I don't know if it is important but my guess it is because they are going to have be erased by the queuer) Start the queue back up with make start-mspq Something you might want to try (again back your stuff up and I didn't try this by the way) rename all the files, move them to the mqueue directory, chown them to :daemon (they are probably :smmsp Or something like that, but basicaly make the group match the same group of a given directory). then try and tickle sendmail to sending the items off. Probably sendmail -bp might kick it. Anyway, hope something there helps. BTW, I looked through sendmail source at queue.c and there's a flag called bogus and if it's not true then sendmail stucks an ugly message in your maillog about uid/gid not matching. I think that has to do with the particular group owner of a given queue directory and if things aren't kosher then BAM! you get the ugly message. I know I did. Good luck. ~Mr. Anderson __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages
Kris, thanks for your attempts, but I'm not sure you understand what I mean... I cannot run a queue manually on these messages because sendmail thinks they are permanent errors. So any queue runs on these messages produce nothing. On this box we don't run a sendmail daemon. We only relay mail to another server when the sendmail daemon gets called. That is why those messages are in the clientmqueue dir instead of the regular mqueue dir. My real issue is that I now have these bunch of messages that won't get processed, because sendmail assumes they are permanent failures. The q files are named with a capital Q in front of them, is this why they are ignored ? Is there any one who knows how to revert and re-submit these messages ??? Thanks, Tim. Kris Anderson wrote: --- Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, ok, I know this isn't the right list, but I've already tried the sendmail group, and no response, so I'm hoping that there might be some sendmail gurus on this list that can help me... After a temporary DNS outage, several machines that we run have email messages on them that sendmail attempted to relay to our mail cluster, but failed because they could not find the host name of the server they were relaying to. So, now, I have hundreds of messages in the clientmqueue directory that are marked as having permanent fatal errors. The top of the d file looks like this : - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 550 Host unknown) - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Host unknown (Name server: ..com: host not found) I see that there are many of these message that are important, and want to save and send them. Is there a way to get sendmail to re-attempt to send these messages ? I think it just ignores them right now because of those lines. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Tim. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Hey there Tim, Found this with google. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049850.html A Dr Matthew had this answer (read full text to see what's up but here's a snippet) If you end up with a load of messages stuck in /var/spool/clientmqueue, you've got a similar problem with not running a MSP queue daemon. The case is exactly analogous, except that the sendmail flags are in /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid and should read: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m and you need to set 'sendmail_msp_queue_flags' in /etc/rc.conf to override them. - Hope that helps. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages
Kris Anderson writes: > Found this with google. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049850.html > > A Dr Matthew had this answer (read full text to see what's up but > here's a snippet) > > If you end up with a load of messages stuck in > /var/spool/clientmqueue, you've got a similar problem with not > running a MSP queue daemon. The case is exactly analogous, > except that the sendmail flags are in > /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid and should read: > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m > > and you need to set 'sendmail_msp_queue_flags' in /etc/rc.conf to > override them. Or: 1) cd /etc/mail 2) make stop 3) make start 4) ps -ax | grep sendmand you should see something like: 1153 ?? Ss 0:14.88 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) 1156 ?? IWs0:00.00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/client 15854 p6 S+ 0:00.01 grep sendm This method uses the same scripts invoked at boot, and will automatically read the various "sendmail_" variables out of rc.conf. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Reprocessing sendmail failed messages
--- Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > ok, I know this isn't the right list, but I've > already tried the > sendmail group, and no response, so I'm hoping that > there might be some > sendmail gurus on this list that can help me... > > After a temporary DNS outage, several machines that > we run have email > messages on them that sendmail attempted to relay to > our mail > cluster, but failed because they could not find the > host name of the > server they were relaying to. > > So, now, I have hundreds of messages in the > clientmqueue directory that > are marked as having permanent fatal errors. The top > of the d file > looks like this : > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal > errors - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (reason: 550 Host unknown) > >- Transcript of session follows - > 550 5.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Host unknown (Name > server: > ..com: host not found) > > I see that there are many of these message that are > important, and > want to save and send them. > > Is there a way to get sendmail to re-attempt to send > these messages ? I > think it just ignores them right now because of > those lines. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > > Tim. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > Hey there Tim, Found this with google. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049850.html A Dr Matthew had this answer (read full text to see what's up but here's a snippet) If you end up with a load of messages stuck in /var/spool/clientmqueue, you've got a similar problem with not running a MSP queue daemon. The case is exactly analogous, except that the sendmail flags are in /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid and should read: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m and you need to set 'sendmail_msp_queue_flags' in /etc/rc.conf to override them. - Hope that helps. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
