Re: sendmail problems

From: Lars Thegler (none@lars--thegler.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk)
Date: Tue 26 Feb 2002 - 10:01:19 CET


From: "Lars Thegler" <none@lars--thegler.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: <none@bsd-dk--bsd-dk.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
Subject: Re: sendmail problems
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:01:19 +0100

Hvon ser headers ud i de mails? Kan de ikke kaste lys over hvad der sker?
Hvad med /var/log/maillog? Hvorfor bruger I ikke postfix :)

/Lars

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Nielsen" <none@admin--fameflame.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: <none@bsd-dk--bsd-dk.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: sendmail problems

> Hi,
>
> Here is my setup ->
>
> 4 mail servers in round rubbin.
> 1 nfs shares for each mail server (mailq)
> Rest doesnt matter.
> --
>
> --
> xxx /MQUEUE#ls -la | egrep '(74581|75280|77630|78617)' ;
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 316945 Feb 24 17:07 dfRAA74581
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 316945 Feb 24 17:08 dfRAA75280
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 316945 Feb 24 17:12 dfRAA77630
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 316945 Feb 24 17:13 dfRAA78617
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 1003 Feb 25 14:31 qfRAA74581
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 1004 Feb 25 14:30 qfRAA75280
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 1008 Feb 25 14:31 qfRAA77630
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 1017 Feb 25 14:31 qfRAA78617
> xxx /MQUEUE#
> --
>
> As you can see I get duplicates of some mails. The timestamps im not
> sure about, if they are correct or not.
>
> I have tried to look through the sendmail.cf file but without luck. I
> was hoping someone could help out here. This happens on all 4 mailservers.
>
> It seems like everytime I get a no-I-dont-want-your-big-mail from the
> recivers mailserver, I get a duplicate in my mailq. When the mail is
> like 23 mb and I get like 400 copies, im outta space :(
>
> Same thing goes for mails which cant be delivered for some other reason.
>
> To me it seems like the mailserver cant deliver the mail back to the
> author and/or make the dead.letter file, but again im not sure.
>
> Hope this info is enough.
>
> Help.
>
> ---
> Jacob Nielsen
>
>
>



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