BiG Problemes with mails

[Amaeru]

Hello !

I haves many problems with exim :

Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 421 Unexpected failure, please try later

I have no possibility to raise my emails

What do I have to make?

Thanks !

 

[nobaloney]

Error 421 should mean that the SMTP service on the receiving system isn't available.

Jeff

 

[floris]

What is the best way to disable spamblocker?

Floris

 

[nobaloney]

Spamblocker is disabled by default.

Make sure that your /etc/use_rbl_domains file is empty.

You don't even have to restart exim (unless you've added a new exim.conf file).

First update to the newest exim.conf file.

Then make sure you all these files (they don't have to have anything in them but they need to exist) in /etc/virtual, even if SpamBlocker is shut off.

bad_sender_hosts
blacklist_domains
blacklist_senders
use_rbl_domains
whitelist_domains
whitelist_hosts
whitelist_senders

If you don't have them add them, and change the ownership to mail:mail and the permissions to chmod 644.

Jeff

 

[floris]

Any known problems when one does

- edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.conf and remove the spamd lines
- kill spamd
- remove /usr/bin/spamd

?

 

[nobaloney]

To disable SpamAssassin edit /etc/exim.conf as follows:

Find the section headed spamcheck_director:.

Comment out all the lines in that section.

Restart exim.

spamd will continue to run (removing it is a bit more complex and we don't bother) but it won't do anything and won't use much in the way of resources.

Jeff

 

[dreamwalker]

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
31815 root 15 0 28112 25m 2264 S 0 9.9 0:00.63 spamd
31832 root 19 0 28112 23m 700 S 0 9.3 0:00.00 spamd
31833 root 20 0 28112 23m 580 S 0 9.2 0:00.00 spamd

Everything is commented out (same as before spamassasin install). Still 30% Memory usage. Better than the 70-80% it was before. Still, I wished there was a warning before installing. I am using CentOS 4.4 , any information regarding to remove it, is welcome and much appreciated.

 

[nobaloney]

You can shut down spamd; how to do that depends on your OS Distribution, but unless you find out where it's started (that depends on your OS distribution) and remove that code, it may restart again if/when you restart exim or your server.

Jeff