sendmail question

[Deven Phillips]

Mike Ballon wrote:
> 
> 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
You recreated your mailbox eh? That problem that I usually see in this
reguard is definitely permissions. They should be as follows

-rw-rw---- <username> mail 

That is read/write to the user and to mail, but no privs to anyone else.
This should work.

Deven Phillips, CISSP

> >future delivery".  Any ideas on how I can force deliver these messages?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >rodney
> >
> >
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