F9: Outgoing mail using "mail" doesn't work

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 08:31 -0400, Eric wrote:
> Then, I went and said "/etc/init.d/sendmail restart" and the test 
> message went right out, cleared from /var/spool/mqueue, and appeared 
> in my In box.  Just like it was supposed to.

Are you using NetworkManager?  If so, that's probably the cause.  I had
the same problem with internal mail.  Sendmail was being started before
a network was up, and never takes into account an interface that came to
life later on.

There were two easy solutions:  Avoid using NetworkManager, or have it
restart the sendmail service after an interface comes on-line with a
dispatcher script.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686

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