topic Re: push the queue right away in Operating System - HP-UX

push the queue right away

peterchu — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:29:59 GMT

there are some mails are stored in the mail queue ( I check by "mailq" comamnd ) , how can I push the to send the mail in the queue

Re: push the queue right away

peterchu — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:31:04 GMT

I tried to use sendmail -q , but the mails still not send out , how can I push to send it out ? thx

Re: push the queue right away

peterchu — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:43:36 GMT

I also tried to restart the sendmail , but still not work , could suggest what can I do ? thx

Re: push the queue right away

Michael Tully — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:51:58 GMT

This problem may depend on the message. Please supply message from with 'mailq' or from the /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file

The problem is most likely elsewhere, like your relay mail server being down.

Re: push the queue right away

HGN — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:39:48 GMT

Hi

This may be if the relay server mentioned on the sendmail.cf file is having some issues, recycling the sendmail daemon will not help in this case. Please make sure the relay server is fine.

Rgds

Gopi

Re: push the queue right away

Bill Hassell — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:20:27 GMT

In a standard installation, sendmail will be running (ps -ef|grep sendmail) and the message is sent immediately. There are two possibilities: the server very heavily loaded and the load exceeds the limit in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf so mail is deferred. The second (most likely) is there is an error in sending the mail. To see the details:

tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Usually you'll find errors like can't qualify my own name or missing MX records in DNS, or unable to qualify my own domain name or similar. This means that you'll have to change your options in sendmail.cf so the mail can be delivered.

Re: push the queue right away

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:26:12 GMT

Hi Peter,

Use 'sendmail -q -v'. You will see how sendmail attempts to send the mails. You should be able to figure out the reason from there. Or look at /var/adm/syslog/mail.log for more information.

-Sri

Re: push the queue right away

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:38:32 GMT

Hi,

Check you mail.log file under /var/adm/syslog and it may give you a clue on what is happening.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: push the queue right away

Geoff Wild — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:19:06 GMT

Does any mail go out?

IE - send a test email to yourself:

mailx -s "test" you@yourdomain.com
Check your log mail log file...

Look at some of the emails - cd /var/spool/mqueue

Just vi a couple...where are they going?

If you don't need them - stop sendmail, then rm them...then start sendmail.

Rgds...Geoff