Hi thanks for reply.
(I have disabled spamassassis and as you say it made no difference)
But why would these load probs have started yesterday morning?
I usually have machine reasonably heavily loaded.
The following is output from ps auxww|grep sendmail
when "burst" is occurring,
root at jkcray:/home/kinsella# ps auxww|grep sendmail
root 7353 0.0 0.1 9008 1992 ? Ss 09:59 0:00
sendmail: MTA: accepting connections
smmsp 7359 16.5 0.2 8804 2900 ? Rs 09:59 0:45
sendmail: MSP: ./m36FeldZ010683 [127.0.0.1]: user open
smmsp 7371 0.0 0.0 1752 484 ? Ss 10:00 0:00 /bin/sh
-c test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp
smmsp 7372 0.0 0.0 1756 596 ? S 10:00 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp
smmsp 7385 17.6 0.4 8792 4168 ? R 10:00 0:46
sendmail: MSP: ./m36Feldc010683 [127.0.0.1]: user open
I'm puzzled by the following line - maybe the culprit??
smmsp 7371 0.0 0.0 1752 484 ? Ss 10:00 0:00 /bin/sh
-c test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp
John
Justin Mason wrote:
> 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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