On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 06:15, Steve Snyder wrote: > What's the reason for the burst of sendmail complaints below? > I've looked through the other logs hoping that some other activity would > be seen at this time as well. Nothing. the surrounding entries in > /var/log/maillog are perfectly reasonable. As far as I can tell this > 14-minute burst of sendmail activity exists in isolation. > > Can anyone suggest a reason for these log entries? > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > May 25 07:09:24 server sendmail[2942]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 24 This doesn't mean sendmail is busy, it means sendmail has noticed that the machine is busy doing other things and since mail will be queued and retried, it stops processing any until the load goes down. You might check your cron entries to see if anything else is started around the time in question to explain the load - or it could have been programs you were running at the console. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com