[TriLUG] help! weird sendmail problem

[Tanner Lovelace]

Greg,

Try checking /var/spool/mqueue.  I believe sendmail saves
its temporary files there (if I've screwed up that location,
though, someone please correct me).

Tanner

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:27, Greg Brown wrote:
> 
> The Facts:
> Red Hat 7.1
> sendmail-8.11.2-14
> connected to my cable modem (outside interface)
> connected to my small networks serving 1 pc (in case RR is listening)
> (inside interface).
> 
> My outside interface appears to NOT be able to resolve it's domain name.  I
> think this is a RR wide thing.  Is anyone running RR able to get a
> resolvable DNS name on the Roadrunner interface on the RR network?  If so
> how?  For instance, the command (issued from my linux box at work) 'dig
> paloverde.nc.rr.com' does not return an ip address.  Does Roadrunner just
> not update DNS entries or simply not support DNS for it's DHCP connected
> devices?
> 
> My real question is this:
> 
> Because my outside interface is not DNS resolvable some mail servers will
> not accept mail send from my box, an example of this is my employer, Lucent.
> Saturday, a day which I was not even in town, my mail server attempted to
> send mail to my work address 6480 times!!!  And it's been doing this every
> stinking day.
> 
> Upon noticing this I freaked out, then stopped sendmail.  I looked in
> /var/spool/mail and sure enough, there were references to lucent.com in the
> three files in this directory.  I deleted every file in this directory then
> restarted sendmail thinking this would stop the mail from going out which
> had not already been delivered.
> 
> No luck.  My machine is still attempting to mail lucent.com and the files in
> /var/spool/mail are still empty.
> 
> Any ideas on where to look to get rid of the files that is causing this?
> 
> Here's an example of what is showing up in my maillog:
> 4:03:18 paloverde sendmail[16406]: g95G0GT14652: to=gwbrown1 at lucent.com,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=16:03:02, xdelay=00:00:18, mailer=esmtp,
> pri=86730161, relay=ihemail2.lucent.com. [192.11.222.163], dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: ihemail2.lucent.com.: No route to host
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Greg
> 
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