Looks like mail to winehq was refused since yesterday because 30 sendmail processes was hung trying to deliver mail to some guy at ameritech.net (timed out connections etc), and since this was a limit in sendmail, it refused further incoming connections, and the secondary mailserver at corel didn't want winehq mails, so all incoming mails have been bounced by it... you'll probably all need to resend any bounced mails, I think.
But it seems the hanging sendmail processes are already building up again. Let's see... should I disable the culprit's subscription, or try to compile a newer sendmail (if available), or maybe install some other MTA software, like exim? Hmm...
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ove Kaaven wrote:
Looks like mail to winehq was refused since yesterday because 30 sendmail processes was hung trying to deliver mail to some guy at ameritech.net (timed out connections etc), and since this was a limit in sendmail, it refused further incoming connections, and the secondary mailserver at corel didn't want winehq mails, so all incoming mails have been bounced by it... you'll probably all need to resend any bounced mails, I think.
But it seems the hanging sendmail processes are already building up again. Let's see... should I disable the culprit's subscription, or try to compile a newer sendmail (if available), or maybe install some other MTA software, like exim? Hmm...
Well, I'm obviously biased given exim's origins... however, upgrading sounds like the best solution. You might be able to do something with sendmail's configuration (switch to "deferred" delivery mode then run sendmail -q frequently??), but upgrading sounds like a better bet.
FWIH, qmail is better than exim at outgoing mail. Don't tell the exim authors I said that, though :-)
James.
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