SUMMARY: sendmail 8.6.9 mail queue problem

From: Jack Porter (jack@scope.dentistry.adelaide.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 23 1995 - 23:18:12 CDT

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Hi Sun Managers,

My original message was regarding sendmail 8.6.9 not processing the mail queue:

> I've installed sendmail 8.6.9 under Solaris 2.4, and it all works great,
> except for what happens when mail sent to my host bounces. It makes the
> replies, and queues them for 1 second in /var/spool/mqueue:
>
> Apr 11 14:36:13 scope sendmail[26474]: OAB26474: to=root
> Apr 11 14:36:13 scope sendmail[26474]: OAB26474: delay=00:00:01
> Apr 11 14:36:13 scope sendmail[26474]: OAB26474: stat=queued
> Apr 11 14:36:13 scope sendmail[26474]: OAA26472: done
>
> (that's the message to postmaster).
>
> But the mail sits there indefinitely:
>
> scope# ls /var/spool/mqueue
> dfJAB06604 dfOAA26474 dfPAB16196 qfJAB06604 qfOAA26474 qfPAB16196
> dfKAB10983 dfOAB00418 dfPAB16223 qfKAB10983 qfOAB00418 qfPAB16223
> ..
>
>
> How can I make sendmail actually send the mail off instead of just leaving
> it in the queue?

Thanks to: Brad Burdick <bburdick@radio.com> and Joe Konczal
<jkonczal@nist.gov> for pointing out that I have to tell sendmail to look at
the queue with the -q option :-/. I changed the line in /etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail
to read:

/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m

so that it checks the mail queue every 30 minutes...

Also thanks to Laura Taylor <ltaylor@hootowl.bbn.com> and Tech Login
<tech@ionet.net> (!) for telling me that I should upgrade due the gaping
security holes in 8.6.9. I've just installed 8.6.12 which is working
superbly.

Jack.

-- 
Jack Porter, Computing Officer   jack@dentistry.adelaide.edu.au
Clinical Dentistry               Rm 2108.C, Dental School
University of Adelaide           Ph +61 8 303 3368, +61 8 303 3283 (secretary)

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