----- Original Message -----
From: Binand Raj S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] sendmail.cf problem
> 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?
yes.
> 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.
Mails are just not getting thru. No bounce messages either. No mails in
root's mailbox.
> 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?
ls -a shows ./ ../ thats all. Nothing else, even when I have sent the mails
when offline.
> > 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.
No haven't touched linuxconf. didin't need to make any changes :)
> 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 -bv -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] gives the following output
deliverable: mailer esmtp, host yahoo.com, user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
mailer = local
stat = sent
from maillog: starting daemon (8.9.3) SMTP+queueing@00:01:00
(followed by two messages for two mails that I recieved).
regards,
sharukh.
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