push the queue right away

[peterchu]

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

[peterchu]

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

[peterchu]

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

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

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.

[HGN]

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

[Bill Hassell]

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.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

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

[Sanjay_6]

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

[Geoff Wild]

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