Re: Mail and news
Mike Patterson writes:
>sendmail -bp got me a queue of 15 entires, all old outgoing mail. They look
>like:
>
>m0tjet7-00091QC From: mike (in /var/spool/smail/input)
> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 21:20 MST
> Args: -oem -oMP send-mail mike@col.hp.com
>
>
>sendmail -q immediately gives me a prompt. Doing sendmail -bp again shows
>that all the mail is still in the queue.
Looks like you're using Smail l-) `mailq' and `runq' are more
convenient ways to do the above.
Have a look at /var/spool/smail/log/logfile and
/var/spool/smail/log/paniclog to see if Smail has anything to tell
you.
(Actually they may have moved to /var/log/<something> in more recent
versions. Explore.)
If you're still stuck then you should tell us:
* how you expect the mail to get out (full SMTP delivery? SMTP to
smarthost? UUCP?)
* what your smail config files say (see under /etc/smail/)
* what your connectivity is (ethernet, ppp, slip, ..?)
(How is mail reaching your system, BTW?)
--
Richard Kettlewell
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ richard@uk.geeks.org
Eat a live sendmail before breakfast and nothing worse will ever happen to you
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