Need urgent help to get Sendmail running again

[Kevin Kinsey]

Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a recent downtime on the mailserver I'm running due to remote 
> location
> and trouble with upgrading FreeBSD. I upgraded from 4.7 STABLE to the 
> latest
> 4.11 with complete make world and new kernel, at first the machine didn't
> come back up again due to a disk error, but now it's online again. However
> I'm having big trouble getting Sendmail up and running normal again.
> 
> I used to have sendmail configured with Spamassassin and Spamass-Milter, 
> but
> I have now removed both of them from the .mc file and uninstalled both the
> programs and startup files.
> 
> When the machine is rebooted I get the following errors:
> 
> pid 86 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> pid 87 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> 
> Sendmail version 8.13.1
> 
> Here are the first lines from /var/log/maillog (server startup)
> 
> Jun 26 15:13:44 malibu sm-mta[86]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> SMTP+queueing at 00:30:00
> Jun 26 15:13:44 malibu sm-msp-queue[91]: starting daemon (8.13.1):
> queueing at 00:30:00
> Jun 26 15:13:45 malibu sendmail[95]: k5QDDjPI000095: from=root, size=427,
> class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261313.k5QDD
> jPI000095 at malibu.wideroe.net>, relay=root at localhost
> Jun 26 15:13:45 malibu sendmail[95]: k5QDDjPI000095: to=ftp, ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer
> =relay, pri=138427, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, 
> stat=Deferred:
> Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:45 malibu sendmail[97]: k5QDDjQl000097: from=root, size=433,
> class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261313.k5QDD
> jQl000097 at malibu.wideroe.net>, relay=root at localhost
> Jun 26 15:13:45 malibu sendmail[97]: k5QDDjQl000097: to=root, ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, maile
> r=relay, pri=138433, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:46 malibu sendmail[99]: k5QDDjsQ000099: from=root, size=455,
> class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261313.k5QDD
> jsQ000099 at malibu.wideroe.net>, relay=root at localhost
> Jun 26 15:13:46 malibu sendmail[99]: k5QDDjsQ000099: to=ftp, ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer
> =relay, pri=138455, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, 
> stat=Deferred:
> Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:46 malibu sendmail[103]: k5QDDkGH000103: from=root, size=427,
> class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200606261313.k5QD
> DkGH000103 at malibu.wideroe.net>, relay=root at localhost
> 
> There seems to be a lot of messages waiting to be sent, Ie. from the 
> forum I
> run.
> 
> Jun 26 15:13:57 malibu sm-msp-queue[92]: k5QAVQCT000089: to=www,
> delay=02:35:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8425
> 88, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [
> 127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:57 malibu sm-msp-queue[92]: k5QAVQCY000089: to=www,
> delay=02:35:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8425
> 92, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [
> 127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:57 malibu sm-msp-queue[92]: k5QAVQCW000089: to=www,
> delay=02:35:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8425
> 93, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [
> 127.0.0.1]
> Jun 26 15:13:57 malibu sm-msp-queue[92]: k5QAVQCe000089: to=www,
> delay=02:35:21, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8425
> 95, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [
> 127.0.0.1]
> 
> /var/spool/clientmqueue contains many messages.
> 
> Also, I can't get Sendmail to accept new messages for the people who are
> users on this system. Mails I send from Ie. this gmail account do not reach
> my account on the mailserver.I don't understand this.
> 
> MX record is fine.
> local-host-names contain all hostnames on the system.
> virtusertable is OK.
> 

Why is the server trying to connect to localhost, anyway?  Did
you do special configuration in order to have Sendmail deliver
mail to 127.0.0.1 as part of your (former) configuration with
Spamassassin?  If so, did you undo these statements so that Sendmail
would now deliver normally?

Just curious,

Kevin Kinsey