problems with mail

[Jeff Vian]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 21.06.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 23:04:
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>>We recently had an extended power outage at a remote site and one of my 
>>servers was shutdown hard.
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>>After power was restored (3 days later) and it came back up I have been 
>>having problems with mail.
>>I first noticed it when my daily logwatch reports were no longer being sent.
>>On further investigation I find that I cannot even send mail from one 
>>user to another on the same box.  
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>>I have done a complete update, replaced procmail and sendmail, rechecked 
>>all the configs in case something had gotten hosed, and rebooted several 
>>times as well as restarting services.  Nothing has worked so far.
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>>Does anyone have pointers on where to look for this type problem?
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>What does the /var/log/maillog say when trying to send a mail locally?
>Does the sendmail daemon run (2 processes!)? Please provide us with
>error messages or don't you get any feedback when sending a mail? How do
>you send? If you send a test mail locally by running something like
>"date | mail -s "test mail" recipient at localhost", is that accepted
>without any complaint?
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>Alexander
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I also checked my firewall on this server and disabled it for testing, 
with no effect.