I have 2 Centos servers that are currently giving me grief,
I am getting the error:-
SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.server.co.uk
Resource temporarily unavailable
This is on both servers
1 is Centos 4.x & the second is:- sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 sendmail-devel-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6
Any clues ?
Thanks
Denis
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Denis Croombs wrote:
I have 2 Centos servers that are currently giving me grief,
I am getting the error:-
SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.server.co.uk
Resource temporarily unavailable
This is on both servers
Any clues ?
Yes, your MTAs seem to have a problem writing to mail.server.co.uk, which is why the connection gets a timeout after some time.
Which is astonishing, as there is no SMTP server listening on that host, so there should be a temporary error - but not the one you are getting.
Well, maybe they had a problem with mail.server.co.uk and are fixing the problem at the moment.
Cheers,
Ralph
Denis Croombs wrote:
I have 2 Centos servers that are currently giving me grief,
I am getting the error:-
SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.server.co.uk
Resource temporarily unavailable
This is on both servers
Any clues ?
Yes, your MTAs seem to have a problem writing to mail.server.co.uk, which is why the connection gets a timeout after some time.
Which is astonishing, as there is no SMTP server listening on that host, so there should be a temporary error - but not the one you are getting.
Well, maybe they had a problem with mail.server.co.uk and are fixing the problem at the moment.
Hi Sorry, I used mail.server.co.uk as an example, it is happening on approx 10 or so servers.
Regards
Denis
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Denis Croombs wrote:
Denis Croombs wrote:
I have 2 Centos servers that are currently giving me grief,
I am getting the error:-
SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.server.co.uk
Resource temporarily unavailable
This is on both servers
Any clues ?
Yes, your MTAs seem to have a problem writing to mail.server.co.uk, which is why the connection gets a timeout after some time.
Which is astonishing, as there is no SMTP server listening on that host, so there should be a temporary error - but not the one you are getting.
Well, maybe they had a problem with mail.server.co.uk and are fixing the problem at the moment.
Hi Sorry, I used mail.server.co.uk as an example, it is happening on approx 10 or so servers.
There are many possibilities here, and obfuscating the remote mail server doesn't help reduce the list of possibilities...
if you can send to these servers, but only get the timeout few times, then they are overloaded so your server will need to retry later.
if you can never send to these servers, they may be blocking you (this could happen if they believe that you are in residential block).
PS. There is a dns mismatch on one of your mail servers:
# host 66.98.180.26 26.180.98.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.deniscroombs.org. # host mail.deniscroombs.org mail.deniscroombs.org has address 209.139.208.133
Denis Croombs wrote:
Denis Croombs wrote:
Sorry, I used mail.server.co.uk as an example, it is happening on approx 10 or so servers.
Don't do that. Use one of the reserved domains for documentation (example.com/org/net) or use the *real* domains you are having issues with.
Looks like a sendmail > 8.13.6 issue (at least that what a quick search on the net reveals).
Can you reproduce those errors while talking to the other side? If so: Turn up logging in your configuration and run a tcpdump/wireshark to look at the packets going over the network.
Cheers,
Ralph
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Ralph Angenendt