Re: Spamd, gmail and aol...

[David Hill <dhill_(_at_)_mindcry_(_dot_)_org>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:41:17PM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 
> >Jeff Ross wrote:
> >
> >> Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:
> >>
> >>      fred_(_at_)_openvistas_(_dot_)_net
> >>
> >> Message will be retried for 1 more day(s)
> >>
> >> Technical details of temporary failure:
> >>
> >> TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:
> >> [ a.mx.openvistas.net. (0): Connection dropped]
> >>
> >> culminating in the failure notice of:
> >>
> >> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
> >>
> >> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
> >>
> >>      fred_(_at_)_openvistas_(_dot_)_net
> >>
> >> Technical details of permanent failure:
> >> TEMP_FAILURE: Probe failed: Server Too Busy
> >
> >
> >Is it possible you're hitting spamd's max connection limit?
> 
> I don't think so. This is a moderately busy e-mail server, and 800 
> connections seems like a lot.  Is there a tool out there I don't know 
> about that can figure out the number of active connections?


netstat -f inet -p tcp -n | grep 8025 | wc -l
or
netstat -f inet -p tcp -n | grep 8025 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l

> 
>  >
> >> spamd.conf is using the China, Korea, Bob Beck's trapped list, and my own
> >> personal whitelist and blacklist.
> >>
> >> My next debugging attempt will be to have someone with a gmail account
> >> send mail while I'm running tcpdump on port 25.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else running spamd seen this?  From my qmail logs, I see mail
> >> from gmail servers through March 23, but none since then.
> >
> >
> >Never had any trouble with gmail once the various servers were 
> >whitelisted. Are you putting your whitelist after Bob Beck's list in 
> >spamd.conf? After your own blacklist?
> 
> From my spamd.conf
> 
> all:\
>   :china:korea:blacklist:beck:whitelist
> 
> 
> >
> >-- 
> >Darrin Chandler            |  Phoenix BSD Users Group
> >dwchandler_(_at_)_stilyagin_(_dot_)_com   |  http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
> >http://www.stilyagin.com/  |
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Jeff