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 ------- Forwarded Message 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 - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Forwarded Message -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list