On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 09:33:54AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
>
> Just a followon question about sendmail and its default settings. I am
> using mutt so I place an attachment. Sendmail reports its using the q30m
> option but email just sits on my local system past the 30 minutes. Here
> is the output of mailq
>
> merwyn ~: mailq
> Mail Queue (2 requests)
> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> ------------Sender/Recipient------------
> IAA05299* 1481899 Sat Feb 13 08:21 mperry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> JAA05589* 1481897 Sat Feb 13 09:10 mperry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Its now 9:30 and the mail at 8:21 should have gone out at 8:51. I have
> been connected all the time waiting for the queued email to go. The
> second one should go at 8:51 if the queue time is observed.
>
> Is sendmail waiting for the actual recipient to come up? Does it send to
> the domain part of things or does it wait for eriddle to come up on the
> net? How long will sendmail wait to send email attachments? This
> behavior does not seem consistent with sendmail's options which are the
> default ones defined in the config file.
>
> Thanks for any help. BTW, sendmail -q does not send the queued email
> either.
What do you see in the logs?
I frequently tail -f /var/log/mail (or whatever log-name you use for mail) to
see if/when important mail goes out.
If it's a problem talking to the remote's SMTP port, the log files will give
you an indication.
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Brad Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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