Amarendra GODBOLE rearranged electrons thusly:
> I have a query. Today morning, I sent a mail, which was held up in the
> mailq on my machine as our mailserver was refusing connections.
> After an hour or so, I sent a second mail, which went through, but the
> first mail was still in the mailq. I restarted sendmail, and then it passed
> through. Why is this so ?
Because sendmail tries to process the queue when you restart it. So maybe it
went out when you restarted it. Try forcing the queue with
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
Then, as your sendmail is slow / refusing connections, check for various
things that might affect this :
1. System load (most likely)
2. Also dns/rdns entries and identd timeouts
-suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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