problems with mail (FIXED)

[Jeff Vian]

Jeff Vian wrote:

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> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>> Am Mo, den 21.06.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 23:04:
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>>> We recently had an extended power outage at a remote site and one of 
>>> my servers was shutdown hard.
>>>
>>> After power was restored (3 days later) and it came back up I have 
>>> been having problems with mail.
>>> I first noticed it when my daily logwatch reports were no longer 
>>> being sent.
>>> On further investigation I find that I cannot even send mail from 
>>> one user to another on the same box. 
>>> I have done a complete update, replaced procmail and sendmail, 
>>> rechecked all the configs in case something had gotten hosed, and 
>>> rebooted several times as well as restarting services.  Nothing has 
>>> worked so far.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have pointers on where to look for this type problem?
>>>   
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>>
>> What does the /var/log/maillog say when trying to send a mail locally?
>> Does the sendmail daemon run (2 processes!)? Please provide us with
>> error messages or don't you get any feedback when sending a mail? How do
>> you send? If you send a test mail locally by running something like
>> "date | mail -s "test mail" recipient at localhost", is that accepted
>> without any complaint?
>>
>> Alexander
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> I also checked my firewall on this server and disabled it for testing, 
> with no effect.

I hate replying to myself. ;-)

I made one more attempt, and did a delete of both sendmail and 
sendmail-cf packages.
I reinstalled them both and rebuilt the sendmail.cf file for my site 
from scratch. Then sendmail started working properly.

As I figured, it was a borked config, but apparently it was in the 
sendmail-cf package and not in sendmail as I originally thought.  Go 
figure.

Thanks for the clues Alexander.