F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 22 19:08:31 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:02 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > That didn't fix it.  The mail got queued though which is another problem 
> > that occurs sometimes along with this.  As soon as I restart sendmail 
> > these queued mails are sent immediately.
> > 
> > [root at knute knute]# mailq
> >         /var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
> > -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
> > ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> > m5MItEsf002625       52 Sun Jun 22 11:55 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
> > name look)
> >                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> > m5MIrQFK002822       52 Sun Jun 22 11:53 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
> > name look)
> >                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >         Total requests: 2
> > 
> 
> These extra emails are problems with the mailq (I think).
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I'm out...I abandoned sendmail for postfix years ago. A suggestion
though...set up a server on your lan to handle relaying all outbound
mail and use an smtp connection to that server instead of relying upon
the local /usr/bin/sendmail binary. That pretty much solves the issue of
configuring each workstation to handle mail deliveries.

Craig




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