Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:25:26 -0700 From: "Jim Barker" <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Scott Mitchell" <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <JAIKFKBOPMOGCAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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sendmail actually was configured incorrectly. Well I shouldn't say incorrectly, I actually forgot that I did this. As part of a suggestion, I believe on FreeBSD's sight I removed the queueing option in /etc/sysconfig so it would not periodically process queued message's....doh!!! So, I just simply forgot that I took that out and I was not aware of the utility mailq which showed me that mail was actually queued and waiting to be processed. Now, I have to check to see if the sendmail.cf file I created will properly send mail out...this should be fun. Thank's again for you help....you'll be hearing from me again....lol. >> >> Thank's for everyone's help, I greatly appreciate it. >> > >No problem! You don't have to create anything under /var/mail yourself -- >it should all be done automatically when the mail is delivered. For some >reason sendmail doesn't know to deliver this mail locally (does the output >of mailq give any indication as to *why* the mail is still queued?) > >It may be that your sendmail is not quite configured right. Someone with >better knowledge of sendmail than me will have to help you out there :( >The only thing I can think of is that sendmail doesn't know that the domain >the mail is addressed should actually be delivered locally. I had this >problem once myself, but I cannot remember now how I fixed it. > >Over to the sendmail gurus, I think. > > Scott. > >-- >=========================================================================== >Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just ><scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" >QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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