Sendmail/qmail Working Sporadically
Dec 14, 2006
I've just moved over to a VPS package with startlogic and am running into a problem with having mail sent from my new server. Basically, mail is backing up in the mail queue and is failing to be sent, but then after a long time (a few days) it, or at least some of it, will suddenly be sent successfully for no apparent reason.
In the meantime the mail is backing up in the mail queue. Looking at the qmail logs I'm seeing lots of "Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection" type of errors, and occasional "Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_localhost.localdomain" errors (though the SMTP ones are far more common place).
I've gone through the plesk/virtuozzo mail server options and they seem fine, and it does send some mail through, just very sporadically and up to about 5 days late.
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May 4, 2009
Are there any VPS providers with verifiable expertise in either qmail or sendmail?
Acceptable demonstration of expertise would include at least one long-term employee with one or more of: citation in respected MTA related reference book
useful tech posts to any related email list/forum/whatever
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Jul 13, 2007
I have few cpanel server, but I have got a question. When mails send using script, does it use exim or sendmail? Are these different? From my understanding exim uses sendmail as MTA, am I right?
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Mar 6, 2007
I am switching servers, and the new one uses QMAIL. It was easy to move existing emails between servers when both used sendmail, however ....
Is there a conversion tool or proceedure? I searched but was unable to locate anything online.
QMAIL is not a replacement on an existing server, it is installed on a new server (working fine) and I must bring existing sendmail data over.
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Jul 2, 2007
I have a weird Issue with my Qmail program. It happened when I separated webmaster@domain, postmaster@domain, and admin@domain into separate e-mail accounts, instead of having them as aliases of each other. Now the standard server and anti-virus automated e-mails all get bounced, and the bounce messages are overwhelming my admin account.
Also randomly some important messages from approved senders also get bounced and end up in there, but with the sheer quantity of messages (100s per day) I have no way of going through and filtering them out. All spam get's failure notice's, but that's how it should be.
I'm a web designer, not a webmaster, but I ended up in charge of this and can't figure out how to fix it. Some insight into the possible cause would be much appreciated.
Here's a sample e-mail:
Quote:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at domain.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!
<anonymous@domain.com>:
The address you used is not a vaild e-mail address at Domain. If you believe this is an error send an e-mail to admin@domain.com
--- Below this line is the original bounce.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 32529 invoked for bounce); 2 Jul 2007 05:30:22 -0400
Date: 2 Jul 2007 05:30:22 -0400
From: MAILER-DAEMON@domain.com
To: anonymous@domain.com
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at deltascanlaboratories.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<drweb@domain.com>:
The address you used is not a vaild e-mail address at Domain. If you believe this is an error send an e-mail to admin@domain.com
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <anonymous@domain.com>
Received: (qmail 32519 invoked by uid 111); 2 Jul 2007 05:30:21 -0400
Date: 2 Jul 2007 05:30:21 -0400
Message-ID: <20070702093021.32516.qmail@domain.com>
From: root@domain.com (Cron Daemon)
To: drweb@domain.com
Subject: Cron <drweb@localhost> /opt/drweb/update.pl
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/drweb>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=drweb>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=drweb>
Dr.Web (R) update details:
Update server: http://update.msk3.drweb.com/unix/433/433
Update has began at Mon Jul 2 05:30:05 2007
Update has finished at Mon Jul 2 05:30:21 2007
Following files had been updated:
/var/drweb/bases/dwntoday.vdb
/var/drweb/updates/drwtoday.txt
/var/drweb/updates/dwntoday.txt
/var/drweb/bases/drwtoday.vdb
--
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/883 - Release Date: 7/1/2007 12:19 PM
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Jul 31, 2009
I am having problem with qmail. I have forum and users are not getting emails send via forum.
I don't care about receiving e-mails and I never do. All I want is for outgoing mail server to be working.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot? Also, I think qmail came as a default (preinstalled) on my server. Is there some other program I should rather use for my purposes? (Again, all I need is *outgoing* mail server). I am using CentOS.
Here is output of 'ps aux' command, related to mail services ....
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Apr 21, 2008
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Nov 21, 2006
My server is not sending mail for about a week, and i dont know what is the problem and how to fix this.
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Could anybody point me the direction how to fix that?
i am having a server runnung RHEL 4
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Mar 1, 2006
I have a RC4 sever running with apache2, PHP 5.1.2 and qmail installed.
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May 26, 2014
Just got a strange problem on my plesk server. (11.0.9)
Qmail isn't working...
In Home>Tools & Settings>Services management SMTP "Server (QMail)" is stoppped.
When I try to start it, it say "Information: Please allow for some time for the service to start." but never starts...
In command line i try to restart it with "service qmail restart" and it says "OK" also if i run "service qmail status" it says "qmail-send (pid 2880) is running..."
but, it really doesn't work... queue is getting bigger and smtp isnt responding...!
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Aug 24, 2007
i have a fedora core 4 server.. and i want to install a good Qmail email server to host some emails of diferent domains..
On searching i found that Qmail should be install with those associated programs/system for a better server :
Qmail itself
EZmlm and EZmlm-idx
Autoresponder
Vpopmail
VQadmin
maildrop
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Courier-imap/imaps with Courierpassd
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Apr 24, 2008
I have a domain with a few forwarding email accounts that forward to mac.com email accounts... for some reason every once in a while these accounts stop working...
This is the error I get when I email to that account:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: ...
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Apr 6, 2007
i have two issues:
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2) in a failed attempt to fix #1 (i thought it was sendmail which caused it) sendmail has stopped sending in or delivering emails... not quite sure why this happened eventhough I backed up sendmail before working on it and reverted back when i failed to resolve the issue?
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Aug 14, 2007
when I send mail with mail() function (on my forum ) I can't resieve it I have
when I execute tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog
I have :
2007-08-14 17:29:43 1IKxOx-0002uq-Qi == nobody@server.XXXX.com R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: cannot create //mail
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Jul 31, 2007
My website is running of a windows server, and so doesn't let PHP sendmail work .
I only remembered this recently, and now know why I have been loosing out on clients.
Is there a work around to this? i.e possibly some sort of script that emulates the linux sendmail? Note: I don't have access to the windows server config, it is a shared hosting account.
As I was on windows and hated my hosts spam protection (took almost 3 hours for the spam filter to confirm safety of emails from gmail servers) I moved the email system to an external company, that now manages my pop3/smtp etc. (not sure if this makes any difference - but may as well explain it just incase)
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Aug 1, 2007
I have installed sendmail program on the server and when I try to send email to any external address, it is trying to connect to localhost. Am I missing anything here?
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Mar 31, 2008
I have found a bunch of articles to setup Sendmail as a mail relay, but none have been successful for me or the articles are very outdated. Anyone have a 'stupid-proof' set of current instructions on how setup Sendmail Pop before SMTP? This is a CentOS 4.5 Box with Sendmail 8.14.2/8.13.1 and Dovecot. Any successful guidance would be appreciated!
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Jul 14, 2009
how to which will help me to make a correct configuration of mail server. I want to set up a mail server with e.g three domain names and all three domain names will have few similar email addresses like info, sales, marketing and so on. I know that this can be done by using control panels but I am not big fan of control panels I want to do a pure Linux administration using the command line.
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Mar 19, 2009
I haven't used Sendmail in a while and would like to clarify a specific setup.
Suppose we have a box hosting a handful of clients, thus it is a Shared setup.
Suppose we have Sendmail sendmail-8.13.1-3.3.el4 on a CentOS 4.7 Final installed with 0 extra configuration other than the default one.
Such setup allows on to relay via the localhost method through php/cgi scripts or even manually through sendmail binary.
Ideal setup would be one where I would have the ability to specify into a file, the usernames allowed to relay email. E.g
if /etc/passwd contains
user1
user2
user3
user3
baduser
user6
spaminguser
than ideally I'd like to pick 'baduser' + 'spaminguser' and disallow them the ability to relay through the localhost.
I should not know anything about their domains or where they are sending.
A general directory setup might be
/home/user1/domain1.com
/home/user1/domain2.com
/home/user1/domain3.com
/home/user2/domain.com
/home/user2/sub.domain.com
etc.
Thus, the server has 0 more than a barebones installation of Sendmail with the following configuration
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divert(-1)dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa',`dnl')dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db',`hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
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May 18, 2009
I've got a chroot setup and I'm currently using mini_sendmail but I'm getting:
Quote:
Deferred: 451-The server has reached its limit for processing requests from your host
I'm assuming thats because I don't have Exim on this server, but I would like to send the mail to Exim on my mail server.
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Jun 16, 2008
A spammer has sent a ton of users a phishing email requesting the users password...
I work for a regional ISP, and we deal with alot of elderly people who would probably send him a response with a password... I looked over the mail log and one person did respond back to him...
Basically... I want to do like... a virtusertable entry that forwards any email sent to HIM... to ME...
so basically... his email is for instance: phishingspammer@gmail.com
I want to do something like this in the virtusertable (I understand it probably cannot be done thru the virtusertable):
phishingspammer@gmail.com goodguy@regionalisp.com
This way I can alert the people who DO try to send him emails that the email was stopped and to never respond with a password.
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Nov 9, 2008
I sent email through php function mail - false.
Open putty ->
php -r 'mail("***@gmail.com","test","jjjjjjjj";'
sh: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
SENDMAIL not installed ?
CentOs 5
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May 3, 2007
Our mail server is rejecting port 25 connections, when anyone trying to send email. We are running sendmail. What configuration file needs to check? And what needs to be changed?
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Oct 23, 2007
on a sendmail issue that I'm seeing, to which both my hosts are saying "nothing wrong at this end".
Some background:
A few months back, I moved my XXX.com from SLHost to another host. But I forgot to remove the account in WHM at SLHost until a day or two ago.
Since then, mails generated by the server (eg, from a PHP script, or the cron messages) are not getting to the XXX.com account - they're just sitting in the mail queue. I can use POP3 to send mails from accounts on SLHost to XX.com without any problems.
Some diagnostics:
MAIL QUEUE OUTPUT FROM SLHOST.COM
Message 1Iju1W-0001a9-G6 is not frozen
delivering 1Iju1W-0001a9-G6
Connecting to XXX.com [209.51.132.1]:25 ... connected
SMTP<< 220-bee.nswebhost.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 #1 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:01:17 -0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
SMTP>> EHLO server.resource-directory.info
SMTP<< 250-bee.nswebhost.com Hello server.resource-directory.info [207.210.221.149]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
SMTP>> STARTTLS
SMTP<< 220 TLS go ahead
SMTP>> EHLO server.resource-directory.info
SMTP<< 250-bee.nswebhost.com Hello server.resource-directory.info [207.210.221.149]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250 HELP
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<nobody@server.resource-directory.info> SIZE=2117
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<subtest3@XXX.com>
SMTP>> DATA
SMTP<< 250 OK
SMTP<< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
SMTP<< 503-All RCPT commands were rejected with this error:
503-Temporary local problem - please try later
503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA
SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
== subtest3@XXX.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<subtest3@XXX.com>: host XXX.com [209.51.132.1]: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
DIG MX OUTPUT FROM SLHOST:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mx XXX.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3132
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;XXX.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
XXX.com. 4116 IN MX 0 XXX.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
XXX.com. 76116 IN NS ns2-bee.nswebhost.com.
XXX.com. 76116 IN NS ns1-bee.nswebhost.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
XXX.com. 4116 IN A 209.51.132.1
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 207.210.221.149#53(207.210.221.149)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 23 08:03:33 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
So, that seems to be OK - the server at SLHost recognises that mail should go to the IP listed for the new account.
DNSREPORT.COM WARNINGS:
WARNSOA REFRESH valueWARNING: Your SOA REFRESH interval is : 86400 seconds. This seems high. You should consider decreasing this value to about 3600-7200 seconds (or higher, if using DNS NOTIFY). RFC1912 2.2 recommends a value between 1200 to 43200 seconds (20 minutes to 12 hours, with the longer time periods used for very slow Internet connections), and if you are using DNS NOTIFY the refresh value is not as important (RIPE recommend 86400 seconds if using DNS NOTIFY). This value determines how often secondary/slave nameservers check with the master for updates. A value that is too high will cause DNS changes to be in limbo for a long time.
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WARNSOA EXPIRE valueWARNING: Your SOA EXPIRE time is : 3600000 seconds. This seems a bit high. You should consider decreasing this value to about 1209600 to 2419200 seconds (2 to 4 weeks). RFC1912 suggests 2-4 weeks. This is how long a secondary/slave nameserver will wait before considering its DNS data stale if it can't reach the primary nameserver.
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FAILReverse DNS entries for MX recordsERROR: The IP of one or more of your mail server(s) have no reverse DNS (PTR) entries/* (if you see "Timeout" below, it may mean that your DNS servers did not respond fast enough)*/. RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry. You can double-check using the 'Reverse DNS Lookup' tool at the DNSstuff site if you recently changed your reverse DNS entry (it contacts your servers in real time; the reverse DNS lookups in the DNS report use our local caching DNS server). The problem MX records are:
1.132.51.209.in-addr.arpa [No reverse DNS entry (rcode: 3 ancount: 0) (check it)]
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WARNMail server host name in greetingWARNING: One or more of your mailservers is claiming to be a host other than what it really is (the SMTP greeting should be a 3-digit code, followed by a space or a dash, then the host name). If your mailserver sends out E-mail using this domain in its EHLO or HELO, your E-mail might get blocked by anti-spam software. This is also a technical violation of RFC821 4.3 (and RFC2821 4.3.1). Note that the hostname given in the SMTP greeting should have an A record pointing back to the same server. Note that this one test may use a cached DNS record.
XXX.com claims to be host bee.nswebhost.com [but that host is at 64.22.69.42 (may be cached), not 209.51.132.1].
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Jun 28, 2007
I am on CentOS 4.4 64 bit, installed sendmail using
yum install sendmail
everything was installed.
when I
service sendmail start
I got:
Starting sendmail: 554 5.3.5 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 265: service "smtp" unknown [FAILED]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
what does that mean? how to fix it?
I just want to allow local php script sending email only. no pop3 and smtp service required.
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Feb 26, 2007
What are the main diffrenced between sendmail and exim? If you can explain,
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Feb 6, 2007
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Jun 23, 2007
I see many mails in the queue lists,and from the title I think is spam.
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In process,it says as client the Root
What Can I Do?
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