Re: problems with mail

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am Mo, den 21.06.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 23:04:

We recently had an extended power outage at a remote site and one of my servers was shutdown hard.

After power was restored (3 days later) and it came back up I have been having problems with mail.
I first noticed it when my daily logwatch reports were no longer being sent.
On further investigation I find that I cannot even send mail from one user to another on the same box.

I have done a complete update, replaced procmail and sendmail, rechecked all the configs in case something had gotten hosed, and rebooted several times as well as restarting services. Nothing has worked so far.

Does anyone have pointers on where to look for this type problem?

What does the /var/log/maillog say when trying to send a mail locally?
Does the sendmail daemon run (2 processes!)? Please provide us with
error messages or don't you get any feedback when sending a mail? How do
you send? If you send a test mail locally by running something like
"date | mail -s "test mail" recipient@localhost", is that accepted
without any complaint?

Alexander

These are in maillog, from todays logwatch and some of the queued messages that have not been delivered.

Jun 22 04:03:00 www sendmail[1625]: i5M930GG001625: from=root, size=66223, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200406220903.i5M930GG001625@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 22 04:03:01 www sendmail[1625]: i5M930GG001625: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30053, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Jun 22 04:29:17 www sm-msp-queue[1772]: i5M930GG001625: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:26:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120053, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Jun 22 04:29:18 www sm-msp-queue[1772]: i5M0THHE001357: to=<jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, delay=08:59:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=841492,
relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]


Sending mail using pine from one user to another --> accepted with no messaages

using the command you provided completes with no messages at all, but the maillog shows this for the attempt.

Jun 22 12:35:14 www sendmail[1954]: i5MHZEcP001954: from=root, size=68, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200406221735.i5MHZEcP001954@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 22 12:35:14 www sendmail[1954]: i5MHZEcP001954: to=jeff@localhost, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30039, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]


from ps output I get
root 670 0.0 0.4 6136 860 ? S Jun21 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
smmsp 679 0.0 0.4 5928 792 ? S Jun21 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue


Sendmail is running with 2 processes as it should be, and restarted yesterday while I was trying to fix it..
The only errors indicate localhost is not accepting connections.

This exact config has worked flawlessly for months until the power outage, which seems to have broken something.

Can you point to a likely point of failure?

I have even run the make command again to recreate the sendmail.cf file.