F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

[Knute Johnson]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> 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).
>>> ----
>>> 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
>>>
>> There are a million ways around the problem, but I'd really just like to 
>> fix it.
>>
>> Thanks for trying though.
> ----
> I feel that you missed my point.
> 
> If you are going to rely upon configuring sendmail on each machine on
> your LAN to deliver e-mail, you need to have working DNS and some
> knowledge on how to configure sendmail. That's what's required to fix
> it. You are choosing your own burdens here.
> 
> Craig
> 

I understand you perfectly.  However there is no DNS problem as I can 
read mail from the server, the browser works and I can ping.  There is 
some new problem with F9 that is causing this or something that works 
differently on F9.  This has worked fine on every version of Fedora 
since 1 and it works fine as soon as I restart sendmail.

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Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com