After a trawl through some of the sendmail-related info in the 'Red
Hat Linux Support Knowledgebase' at redhat.com, I appear to have
found a solution for my queueing outgoing mail problem - (original
post below).

I entered my hostname in /etc/mail/local-host-names (which was
empty save for the comment at the top of the file), and after
restarting sendmail, my outgoing mail is now leaving without having
to be pushed.

Many thanks to those who offered help and advice with this.

Cheers
James

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Date:    Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:41:22 +0100
From:    James Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up


Hi there - I wonder if anyone can help me overcome a problem.

I installed RH 9.0 yesterday, and have a problem with outgoing mail
- - it queues up (like this!):

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mailq
                /var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
- -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------
- -
h6PC8u2F031153      852 Fri Jul 25 13:08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
                 (host map: lookup (virgin.net): deferred)
                                         <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
                Total requests: 1


.. and won't leave until it's flushed manually (/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
as root).  Last time I used Redhat (7.3 I think), it 'just worked' -
mail would happily leave of its own accord without having to be
manually flushed, as it has with other distros I've used.

I use nmh, though I don't think that's a consideration. sendmail is
ticked as 'currently running' in the service configuration gui.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
James


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