sendmail question

Mike Ballon calzonie at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Dec 19 11:36:01 PST 2000


So you can't get local mail delievered.

What file did you delete?  /var/spool/mail/root? /root/mbox?

What are you reading mail with? pine, mail?

How did you recreate it, touch?  What permissions?


>Thanks for the response.  Sendmail is set up for just one domain.
>
>From a remote machine I can recieve mail which tells me POP3 is
>fine and Sendmail is running.  But, I can't send.  So, maybe SMTP
>might not be working properly.  But, it has worked fine in the past.
>
>It has been working fine until yesterday.  My root mail account file had
>become too large to deal with and I was unable to open it.  So, I deleted
>the file and created a new empty one.  Ever since then, I have had the
>above problem.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Ballon [mailto:calzonie at hawaii.rr.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:01 PM
>To: Linux Users Anonymous
>Subject: [luau] RE: sendmail question
>
>
>Of course if they are all different domains I'd check your dns setup, if
>they are all going to the same domain check the dns for that one domain or

>see if the host itself is up:
>
>telnet host.domain.com 25
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Ballon [mailto:calzonie at hawaii.rr.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 5:54 PM
>To: Linux Users Anonymous
>Subject: RE: [luau] sendmail question
>
>
>Sounds like a dns problem (mx or otherwise).  Is all the mail going to the

>same domain?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rodney Davis [mailto:rodney at wincubic.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 2:47 PM
>To: Linux Users Anonymous
>Subject: [luau] sendmail question
>
>
>I am using send mail on Turbo Linux and am having some trouble getting it to

>deliver some messages.  Webmin shows that I have about 1500k worth of
>messages in the queue ready to go but their status is listed as deferred. 
I
>tried to flush the mqueue dir with both webmin and sendmail -v -q but i only

>get back and error reading, "Transient Parse Error - message queued for
>future delivery".  Any ideas on how I can force deliver these messages?
>
>Thanks,
>
>rodney
>
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