[BlueOnyx:20039] Re: 5209R Sendmail hanging gripe

[Larry Smith]

Chris,

  Yes, have the AV-SPAM package on both boxes, but that
particular error I believe is the saslauthd process not restarting
after end-of-day processes (part of my same sendmail problem)

If I restart the saslauthd process, my users report that mail starts
working again and I no longer see these messages.  I also see
messages on auth fail for sendmail scattered between the no MAIL/EXPN
messages.  I have been just restarting both sendmail and saslauthd
and it seems to fix things (while I was out the techs were just 
rebooting the boxes which also "fixes" it).

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Wed August 31 2016 09:32, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> On 8/31/2016 8:28 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
> >   Have two 5209R servers that are doing the exact same thing.
> > Appears to be relative to end-of-day processing, but not certain.
>
> Do you happen to have AV-SPAM on these systems, as well?
>
> I've noticed that CLAM tends to lock up frequently.  So much so, that
> it's more trouble than it's worth.
>
> This is the 2nd day in a row that we're responding to boatloads of
> tickets with reports that users can't send email - it just keeps asking
> for their password again and again.   Checking the logs, we see the
> sending IP address triggering messages like
> ...did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA