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I have M4000 Solaris 10 server, from few many days there are too many sendmail and mail.local process starting on server and each time i need to kill mannualy using pkill send mail, some time there will 600 of them taking 30mb memory for each and hence slowing down the server, here is sample of process



when i do "pkill sendmail" it will kill send mail but still there will be be couple of hundread "mail.local" like below

i did check mail and it was showing a cronjob alert, i even disabled the cron. but still these mail process keeps growing with time

Appreciate all the and questions if any

Raghu

after doing all these here is again new process started

smmsp 7176 1 0 07:02:21 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m

After kill all process, and i login as user infodba i get alert i have a mail
$mail
will give this output

----- Transcript of session follows -----
infodba... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; infodba@ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Remote-MTA: DNS; [127.0.0.1]
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:57:27 +0530 (IST)
--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Return-Path: <infodba>
Received: (from infodba@localhost)
by ie10ux014.honeywell.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4/Submit) id p5JD65ID000485
for infodba; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
From: infodba
Message-Id: <201106191306.p5JD65ID000485@ie10ux014.honeywell.com>
To: infodba
Subject: Output from "cron" command
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Your "cron" job on ie10ux014
/tcpdv1_ie10/tcadmin/bin/listusers 2>&1
produced the following output:
You MUST BE LOGGED in as infodba to run this shell script, exiting...

--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com--

but i have already disabled this, but still why i am recieving mail/alert?

If you don't need sendmail, then disable it by running:

Code:

svcadm disable smtp:sendmail

You are still receiving these emails because they have been queued for up to 5 days and have been unable to deliver to the intended recipent.

The default "sendmail" does not give up easily.

To view the queue:

Code:

mailq

Either your email configuration is faulty or the target address is wrong. It can't send mail to infodba@ie10ux014.honeywell.com for some reason.

I also suspect that there is a cron examining the mail queue which may be running from a script which is not exiting. Just a theory.