[ILUG] sendmail probs - spamassassin to blame?

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008, John A. Kinsella wrote:

> I'm running Gutsy Gibbon - have my work email sent directly via 
> sendmail/smtp to my mail spool dir.
>
> All well until this morning when I started getting phonecalls that emails 
> to me were bouncing.
>
> What is wierd is that I get a burst of say 20-40 rejected messages
> ======8<========
> Apr  8 22:21:46 jkcray sm-msp-queue[22055]: m38LK1wX022055: to=postmaster, 
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=38873, relay=[127.0.0.1]
> [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> ======8<========
> in /var/log/mail.log every few minutes.

Your mail server is apparently trying to connect to itself on a different
port (probably tcp/10025 or some such) and getting connection refused
indicating that whatever's supposed to be listening isn't.  

As spamassassin (or perhaps amavis or something?) supposed to be listening
on that port? Is it running?  


Gavin