Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. forced the electrons to say:
> sendmail.cw does not have dnl before Allow_unresolvable_domain
That is accept_unresolvable_domains, isn't it?
> All of a sudden, from a few days back, I was unable to send mails. The mail
> goes upto the sent-mail folder but no further. It does not return with any
> error message nor is it found in mqueue.
A few questions:
1. Are the mails getting delivered at all? Send a test mail to, say,
one of the free email services on the net, and check out if the mail
actually reaches there. Are you getting bounce messages (mails from
MAILER_DAEMON)? Check root's mailbox (or the mailbox of whoever is
supposed to get the mail meant for root) to see if anything reached there.
2. What happens when you send email when you are offline? Do they turn
up in the queue? What does ls -l /var/spool/mqueue say?
> I am positive I did not revert these changes. No one else has access to my
> computer (I actually lock up the cpu in a special cabinet --- lots of
You are on an RHL system. Did you run linuxconf in between? I think
linuxconf runs m4 /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
when you say activate the changes. I am not sure, though.
Among other things, to check if sendmail is delivering properly, try the
command
sendmail -bv -v <some valid email address here>
And check the o/p. If it says mailer esmtp, then probably things are
alright.
Sendmail logs what it did to a mail in /var/log/maillog. Check there
to see what happened to the mails you sent. Especially, the mailer=
and the stat= fields of the log message. Post any unexplained messages
found there.
Regards,
Binand
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