topic Re: Sendmail process hung in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail process hung

Deepak Kulkarni — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:04:55 GMT

Hi !!!!

cat $TEST_MAIL | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f address@myhost

The above process hungs. mailq output is as below. What might be the reason for this?

$ mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
XAA21570* (no control file)

Thanks & Regards
DK

Re: Sendmail process hung

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:33:44 GMT

Hi DK:

As the manpages for 'sendmail' would note, "sendmail is not intended as a user interface routine. Other programs provide user-friendly front ends. sendmail is used only to deliver pre-formatted messages."

Instead why not (?):

# mailx -s "Your Subject Here" address@myhost.org < ${TEST_MAIL}

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Sendmail process hung

Ivan Krastev — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:43:50 GMT

See this old thread how to deal with this empty messages - http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=108284

regards,
ivan

Re: Sendmail process hung

Deepak Kulkarni — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:44:29 GMT

Hi JRF

Thanks for the reply.

What is the meaning of (no control file) in the mailq output. Is it denotes something? And how can we read XAA21570.

Please suggest me any document if you come across.

Regards
DK

Re: Sendmail process hung

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:49:45 GMT

Hi (again) DK:

> What is the meaning of (no control file) in the mailq output. Is it denotes something?

See Technical Knowledge Base article ID# emr_na-c01113186-1

> And how can we read XAA21570.

You should find that file in '/usr/spool/mqueue'. This is discussed in the article cited, above, too.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Sendmail process hung

Deepak Kulkarni — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:13:11 GMT

Thanks for the kind help comrades......

Regards
DK