mail problems....

[Ryan Coleman]

I'd lay dollars to donuts that some service you are running (SASL, AV, etc) is not running and it's hanging there. Have you looked at the logs? Or done a verbose mailing to yourself? Your MTA should have a stuck queue list and reasons why for you.

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Ryan

On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Jerry wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:20:18 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net> articulated:
> 
>> i spent entire day saturday getting my primary server up to date.
>> unfortunately, no mail can get out..... maybe for days......
>> 
>> mail Can get in.
> 
> Sorry, crystal ball is out for repairs. Perhaps you could enlighten us
> with some pertinent log entries, MTA being employed, etc. If Postfix,
> provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at
> http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger. If the problem is SASL related,
> consider including the output from the saslfinger tool. This can be
> found at http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/.
> If the problem is about too much mail in the queue, consider including
> output from the qshape tool, as described in the QSHAPE_README file. I
> cannot help you with other MTAs.
> 
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> Jerry ✌
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