Re: [vchkpw] indirect reasons for 5.7.1? - behavior confirmed

2004-04-05 Thread David Wolfskill
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:14:26PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote:
Thanks for your help, which lead to the resolution.  Still a mystery to me
why a default SMTP answerer would respond with 5.7.1.  I inquired about that
but got no reply yet.

Just a wild guess, but perhaps because the recipient addresses in
question were not being handled by the SMTP server in question.

Peace,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: [vchkpw] indirect reasons for 5.7.1? - behavior confirmed

2004-04-03 Thread X-Istence
Kurt Bigler wrote:
snip
The plot thickens.  sockstat produced no output, apparently a limitation of
the virtual server implementation.  Inquiring into this, the parent server
apparently had default processes answering (stupidly) when virtual server
email servers were not running.  The administrator fixed this with a quick
configuration change, and now everything behaves as expected.
Thanks for your help, which lead to the resolution.  Still a mystery to me
why a default SMTP answerer would respond with 5.7.1.  I inquired about that
but got no reply yet.
-Kurt



Well, that is an easy one, if they are running qmail as well, it would 
answer with a 5.7.1 meaning your domain is not in their rcpthosts.

X-Istence



Re: [vchkpw] indirect reasons for 5.7.1? - behavior confirmed

2004-04-02 Thread Kurt Bigler
on 4/2/04 1:15 PM, Kurt Bigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 This is regarding qmail + vpopmail 5.3.12 running under tcpserver, on
 FreeBSD 4.6.1.
 
 My server was bouncing *everything* with 5.7.1, that is including stuff that
 should have been delivered to domains hosted by my server.
 
 I panicked and just rebooted my server (because reboot is very quick and it
 is the most reliable way to fix a bunch of things quickly without having to
 take time to identify a problem), and thus lost some of the evidence.
 
 But I am suspicious based on previous expeirences that if a certain process
 dies that some process starts responding to all smtp requests with 5.7.1.
 Or is there any other obvious reason why qmail might go into a permanent
 5.7.1 mode?
 
 Thanks for any thoughts, and sorry to be so lacking in info.  I did do a
 quick ps when I discovered the problem and I'm pretty sure that the
 tcpserver process involving qmail-smtpd was probably not there.  I only
 remembered it should have been there after rebooting and doing another ps.
 Is there some default mode for smtp connections that takes over under such a
 circumstance?
 
 Thanks,
 Kurt Bigler

I confirmed that if I kill this process (line from ps output):

  qmaild86243  0.0  0.1   904  360  ??  SNJ   3:05PM   0:00.09
tcpserver -v -H -R -lvps.breathsense.com -x
/var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c200 -u1003 -g1001 0 25 fixcrio
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd

that incoming SMTP attempts are greeted by a 5.7.1 error.

Does anyone understand how this happens?

Thanks,
Kurt Bigler



Re: [vchkpw] indirect reasons for 5.7.1? - behavior confirmed

2004-04-02 Thread X-Istence
Kurt Bigler wrote:
snip


I confirmed that if I kill this process (line from ps output):

  qmaild86243  0.0  0.1   904  360  ??  SNJ   3:05PM   0:00.09
tcpserver -v -H -R -lvps.breathsense.com -x
/var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c200 -u1003 -g1001 0 25 fixcrio
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
that incoming SMTP attempts are greeted by a 5.7.1 error.

Does anyone understand how this happens?

Thanks,
Kurt Bigler




Well, considering that is your SMTP service, it looks like another 
server on the same system is taking over, or you configured something wrong.

since its freebsd, take a look at:

sockstat -4, and look for port 25 and what process has it in use if you 
kill that process you mentioned.

X-Istence


Re: [vchkpw] indirect reasons for 5.7.1? - behavior confirmed

2004-04-02 Thread Kurt Bigler
on 4/2/04 6:24 PM, X-Istence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Kurt Bigler wrote:
 snip
 
 I confirmed that if I kill this process (line from ps output):
 
 qmaild86243  0.0  0.1   904  360  ??  SNJ   3:05PM   0:00.09
 tcpserver -v -H -R -lvps.breathsense.com -x
 /var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c200 -u1003 -g1001 0 25 fixcrio
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 
 that incoming SMTP attempts are greeted by a 5.7.1 error.
 
 Does anyone understand how this happens?
 
 Thanks,
 Kurt Bigler
 
 Well, considering that is your SMTP service, it looks like another
 server on the same system is taking over, or you configured something wrong.
 
 since its freebsd, take a look at:
 
 sockstat -4, and look for port 25 and what process has it in use if you
 kill that process you mentioned.

The plot thickens.  sockstat produced no output, apparently a limitation of
the virtual server implementation.  Inquiring into this, the parent server
apparently had default processes answering (stupidly) when virtual server
email servers were not running.  The administrator fixed this with a quick
configuration change, and now everything behaves as expected.

Thanks for your help, which lead to the resolution.  Still a mystery to me
why a default SMTP answerer would respond with 5.7.1.  I inquired about that
but got no reply yet.

-Kurt