From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 10:38:11 EST
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Frank Thommen wrote:
> we have a weird problem with one of our several mailservers: From time
> to time it gets into a state, that it refuses to receive SMTP
> connections from our mailrelay in _most_ (95%), but not all cases
> ("connect to <remote_server>[<ip>]: Connection refused").
>
> At the same time it is possible to telnet to port 25 of the refusing
> server and send mails without any problem. Until three days ago it
> helped to restart sendmail on the remote server and to requeue the
> appropriate mails on the central relay. But currently mails are
> accumulating ...:-(
>
>
> The mailrelay is running postfix 2.0.16 (Solaris 9), the remote server
> is running sendmail 8.9.3 (Solaris 2.6.1). The identical setup works
> fine for all other mailservers we have (updating is currently not an
> option).
>
Don't blame the messenger. Fix Sendmail (the one refusing connections) not
Postfix. This is not the best forum for Sendmail advice, but FWIW consider
removing or raising the "RefuseLA" setting in sendmail.cf.
-- Viktor.
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