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Old 08-25-2010, 06:20 PM   #1
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GAH! sendmail


I'm taking over as a Linux admin where they use sendmail last week. I've done very little with email on linux, and haven;'t touched sendmail since 2000 so I am really out of my element.

Basically the sendmail server for many months has had performance problems, disk, and load.

Looking into it I found this doing a tail on /var/log/Maillog

Aug 25 17:11:49 web8 sendmail[1531]: o7OGF2VH002566: to=postmaster, delay=1+01:58:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=2388694, relay=[xx.xx.xx.xx], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [10.10.20.107]: No route to host

And that was all it was spewing, I edited the config files because xx.xx.xx.xx doesn't exist. And running m4, then restarting sendmail.

It is still spewing out that message, but I do see some things connecting to the new yy.yy.yy.yy address. I even greped the entire /etc looking for the old machine.

So whats going on?

Thanks guys!
 
Old 08-25-2010, 06:49 PM   #2
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queued messages? clear out /var/spool/mqueue
 
Old 08-25-2010, 09:22 PM   #3
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Thanks for the reply AlucardZero.

Is there a way to clear the queued messages with out deleting them? Shouldn't they get routed to the new server? Will they eventually?

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