sendmail reject connections

[Julio Galicia]

eventually, sendmail sends messages saying is rejecting connections, however, works fine.

Why behave this way, or is this normal?

Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

This behavior is abnormal.

It would appear your system is too busy to accept sendmail connections.

The message says the load factor on the box is 29. Under certain circumstances that can be a little excessive.

You might want to run top, glance or gpm and figure out why your system is so busy.

SEP

[RAC_1]

In sendmail.cf, there is option where you can specify no. of emails in queue. If there that nos. of email in queue, delivery will take place only after queue is less than no. specified in sendmail.cf

This is what is happenening in your case.

Anil

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

You need to lok at following options in sendmail.cf file.

# load average at which we just queue messages
#O QueueLA=8

# load average at which we refuse connections
#O RefuseLA=12


Anil