Email stuck in the queue

[B. Jen]

I have several emails that stuck in the queue. Should I stop/restart the mail daemons? What are the commands? I don't have SysMan.

Thank you.

[Keith Johnson]

If they are strictly outgoing mails, no. I'd suggest running sendmail -vq at the command line and see what diagnostic messages (if any) show up.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The sendmail daemon does not need to run for outbound mail.

sendmail -v -q

Runs the mail queue and pushes it out if possible.

check /var/adm/mail.log for details

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

The mail log is in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log and will report on the reason for mail delivery failure. If you have never setup email on this server, you'll have to describe your setup a bit more. For instance, are these emails local to your HP-UX box, local to your company network or are they being sent to the open Internet? If you are trying to send to the net, does your firewall prevent SMTP transactions for servers like HP-UX? If so, does your email administrator allow forwarding through the corporate email server?