monit and sendmail

[Kevin Maguire]

Hi

I am using monit to monitor sendmail  This is via the following config:

> check process sendmail with pidfile /var/run/sendmail/mta/sendmail.pid
> group smmsp
> start program = "/etc/init.d/sendmail start"
> stop  program = "/etc/init.d/sendmail stop"
> if failed port 25 protocol smtp then restart
> if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
> depends on sendmail_bin
> depends on sendmail_rc


These are the setting needed for the sendmail setup with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Anyway this causes a problem which is my logs fill with these messages

Aug 23 15:47:11 IOtest sm-mta[20581]: k7NDlBQ6020581: localhost
[127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
MTA-v4

One message every 30 secs.  I am presuming this is because of the lack
of a HELO or EHLO in the smtp connection monit makes to check sendmail
is up, as this changelog entry suggests

*  Wait for complete SMTP server greeting in SMTP protocol test before
  sending QUIT to the server. Exim4 is sensible on the client-server
  synchronization and the protocol test failed because monit was faster
  then expected. Thanks to Tadas Zelionis < tm at equs ! home ! lt >
  for reporting the bug.

I am not minded to change my sendmail config to NOT log those errors,
so is there a way to force monit to say "HELO localhost" before
sending a QUIT command  when checking there is something listenin g on
port 25?

Kevin