resend sendmail mqueue?

[Hendra_3]

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?

[Jochen Heuer]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Udo Konstantin]

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

[Hendra_3]

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.