[CentOS] CentOS-5.10 Sendmail STARTTLS error

This morning I discovered this in the logwatch report for our external MX
backup host.


STARTTLS: write error=syscall error (-1), errno=32,
get_error=error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), retry=99, ssl_err=5: 206
Time(s)



I also see many entries similar to this:



      8: fl=0x802, mode=140777: SOCK
inet04.mississauga.harte-lyne.ca/34091->(Transport endpoint is not connected):
1 Time(s)
    MCI at 0x8055b34:
flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Mon Nov 24 10:56:35 2014\n: 1
Time(s)
    MCI at 0x8053aa4:
flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Mon Nov 24 18:41:32 2014\n: 1
Time(s)
    MCI at 0x8053aa4:
flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Tue Nov 25 07:41:32 2014\n: 1
Time(s)



I have not seen this sort of thing before and I am wondering what it means? 
Googling has not provided anything useful.  In case this was an incipient HDD
error I rebooted with /forcefsck but on CentOS-5 one obtains no log of the rc
report.  I am also not entirely clear on whether or not /forcefsck actually
repairs any errors. Thus it may not mean much to have done this.

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