Our sun OS 2.7 mail server had a system panic on Friday and it rebooted. I hadn't configured the boot scripts yet and our other sysadmin didn't call me (I was on vacation). This morning I saw that qmail hadn't started and sendmail (which had never been configured to work) had queued all the messages since friday. I fixed qmail and rebooted to make sure that my boot scripts now worked. Now qmail is working fine but I have over 1000 messages in my sendmail queue. I tried sendmail.bak -q and it ran and tried to send messages but they all show up queued. Any ideas? We are running behind a firewall and not using DNS behind the firewall I am using a hardcoded IP address smtproute to forward everything to our mail server in the DMZ. First question, can I run sendmail.bak (that was copied from the original /usr/lib/sendmail that was then linked as follows: #ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail ? Are my messages queuing because sendmail has never worked properly? sendmail.cf is a copy of subsidiary.cf and mailhost in /etc/hosts points to the system that is my snmproute for all traffic for qmail. I have hosts then dns in my nsswitch.conf file (I know that qmail doesn't read this but sendmail should). Next question, is there another way I can send this mail without getting sendmail to work? Thanks for any help Susan Short ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
