topic Re: resend sendmail mqueue? in Operating System - Linux

resend sendmail mqueue?

Hendra_3 — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 04:58:39 GMT

Hi all,
My mail server was down for a while. And there are some files in /var/spool/mqueue.
Now, sendmail is running, but it can NOT resend those files. (there's no problem with new incoming message)

# sendmail -v -qI qfh0H1KKj26593

Running /var/spool/mqueue/h0FK22P19994 (sequence 1 of 94)
Service root@mydomain.com unknown: No such file or directory
root... Host unknown (Name server: -f: host not found)
Service MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.com unknown: No such file or directory
root... Host unknown (Name server: -f: host not found)
MAILER-DAEMON... aliased to postmaster
postmaster... aliased to root
postmaster... aliased to root
Service MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain.com unknown: No such file or directory
root... Host unknown (Name server: -f: host not found)
MAILER-DAEMON... aliased to postmaster
postmaster... aliased to root
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

any idea?

Re: resend sendmail mqueue?

Jochen Heuer — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:28:08 GMT

Hi,

usually after some time the emails from the queue are delivered automatically. But if you want to force sendmail to try to deliver each email in the queue just run:

$ sendmail -q

Regards,

Jochen

Re: resend sendmail mqueue?

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:49:36 GMT

try the mailq command. If it shows mail in the queue, you might have a mail realy issue.

sendmail -q will try and force mail thats in the queue to go through.

sendmail -v d38.2 target address

A good diagnostic tool.

Steve

Re: resend sendmail mqueue?

Udo Konstantin — Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:49:15 GMT

hi,

maybe i'm not sure but you need to be first authorize by your provider/email host before you can send mail to it

greets

udo

Re: resend sendmail mqueue?

Hendra_3 — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:13:51 GMT

my sendmail is running as daemon with queue time 1hour.
But it can not send out all email (already queue) in /var/spool/mqueue.

# ps -ax|grep sendmail
4276 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q1h

# sendmail -v d38.2 user@cleardatavoice.com
d38.2... User unknown

how to debug this?

thanks.