sendmail mqueue

[Jennifer Lam]

Hello All,
I have the problem when I sendmail from clients to mail server:
1. Client 1: after sendmail the message go through to the mail server, then store in /var/spool/mqueue directory instead of send to /var/mail directory and distribution to the users.
2. Client 2: after sendmail the message send to it /var/spool/mqueue directory, then stay there
When I check in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log:
1. Client 1: stat=send, but I did not get 'you have mail' form the user that I send mail out.
2. Client 2: the log file show that warning: "could not send message for past 4 hours". The stat=queued.
I also try to sendmail inside server local users; the message send out OK without problem, so I don't know what is causing problem (server/client).
Would you give me the idea that what is causing the problem, and what should I check.

Thank you.
Happy Holiday season
Regards
Jennifer Lam

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Check whether sendmail daemon is running on both the servers. (ps -ef | grep sendmail )
if not start sendmail by this command /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Also check if var/mail has read/write permissions.


-Goodluck,

-USA..

[Craig Rants]

Jennifer,

Try using a verbose mail message...


/usr/lib/sendmail -v user@client2 < /etc/host

This will give you a much better idea on what is going on and just where your message is failing.

GL,
C

[Steve Miller_4]

You can also try:

sendmail -v -d21 user@host
which will give you some debug information about DNS resolution, canonical mapping, etc.

[Wodisch]

Hello Jennifer,

do you use DNS on that station?
Are the mails sent are targeted to a domain which doe snot have an "MX" record in DNS?
Check your "/etc/mail/services.switch" to NOT use "dns" in case you are NOT using DNS...

HTH,
Wodisch