sendmail not sending

[Robert Holtzman]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:14 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> Sendmail/alpine not sending mail on newly installed FC9. Incoming messages
>> arrive O.K. The correct SMTP server is in the ~/.pinerc file. The maillog
>> entries are *way* too cryptic for me to decipher.
>>
>> Any pointers short of trying to wade thru the *choke* sendmail
>> configuration file?
> ----
> by default, sendmail only listens to localhost (127.0.0.1) so if you set
> up anything other than localhost as SMTP server in ~/.pinerc - you would
> have to configure /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (read the comments), then
> restart sendmail.

I have no idea why but after 3 attempts to send a test message to myself 
the fourth attempt was successful (after I posted my question...of 
course).

Thanks for your reply.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
  check the price of the beer"