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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >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/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eat a live sendmail before breakfast and nothing worse will ever happen to you
