Solved my own problem! Could not for the life of me figure it out but on
a hunch I took this as an opportunity to dump sendmail and install postfix.
2 minutes later and it works fine :-) "mailq" returns instantly as it
should, and alerts are working fine.
I've only been here 2 months and have
OK, here's hoping it is 3 times lucky and this is not a stupid question :-)
I've been digging through it for about 90 minutes now and am finally
sending this off.
I'm not getting alerts, and when I dig into log files and the "Event Log"
at the bottom left of the old Nagios interface, I see a few