On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 20:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb Philippe um 12:07: Hi Alexander. > > I remember we had that topic already a couple of days ago. Still the > same problem? Yes, but I am quite sure that this happen only after the first boot. In clear, my mails will be queued until I flush the queue (using webmin), and then, everything will be fine, no mail queued anymore, until the next boot. > > Given that you did not change the basic setup of Sendmail on Fedora, > Sendmail will only queue the mail for outgoing if it can't find a way > out or if the remote server gives back a temporary error message (DSN > 4xx). By default the queue runner will try every 60 minutes to empty the > queue by delivering it's content to the targets. So if your mail is > stuck inside the queue for a longer period you have a serious setup > problem. Again, given that you did not fundamentally change the setup of > Sendmail, your DNS is broken or you have a strange firewalling. No specific firewall, no specific configuration. I don't touch this kind of stuff ;-) > To check what's going on the first look has to go into the > /var/log/maillog. It may be helpful to increase the log level to a > higher level by putting > > define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `15')dnl Did it via webmin. I will try to look the sendmail start trace at the first boot. > into the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. You will need to restart Sendmail > to activate that setting. Afterwards you will see very verbose messages > about what is happening. If you don't understand yourself what's going > on you could place the relevant maillog part on a webspace and mail me > the address (.htaccess restricted). Along with the output of > mailq -v OK Thanks, > Do you > run Fedora Core 1 or Core 2 where Sendmail works? RH9. I jumped directly to FC2. > Do you use a smart > host or does your Sendmail is speaking directly to the target MX hosts? I don't really know what you mean ... keep in mind that this is the basic configuration of FC2. I don't think I have any "smart host" ;-) Thanks a lot again to try to solve this with me. Sorry to be late to answer, but I had a lot of work those last days and for the next 2 days. I will maybe be late to check and give more information. Regards, Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
