[ILUG] sendmail probs - spamassassin to blame?

[Justin Mason]

It's not SpamAssassin, I think -- sounds like load problems.   I've had
great results switching from sendmail to postfix, which can at least queue
the inbound mail instead of refusing connections...

--j.

John A. Kinsella writes:
> Hi.
> I'm running Gutsy Gibbon - have my work email sent directly via 
> sendmail/smtp to my mail spool dir.
> 
> All well until this morning when I started getting phonecalls that emails 
> to me were bouncing.
> 
> What is wierd is that I get a burst of say 20-40 rejected messages
> ======8<========
> Apr  8 22:21:46 jkcray sm-msp-queue[22055]: m38LK1wX022055: to=postmaster, 
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=38873, 
> relay=[127.0.0.1]
> [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> ======8<========
> in /var/log/mail.log every few minutes.
> 
> Between these bursts I can send and receive email but not during them.
> Googling suggests that spamassassin might be the culprit?
> 
> I've tried editing sendmail.mc and rebuilding sendmail.cf with larger 
> value for the "throttle" settings but that didnt help.
> 
> Needless to say I had not changed any system setting in last 7 days but a 
> central ul mail server did go down last night - though the net admins say 
> it is not relevant.
> 
> Suggestions very welcome.
> 
> John
> 
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