F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

[Knute Johnson]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:02 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> That didn't fix it.  The mail got queued though which is another problem 
>>> that occurs sometimes along with this.  As soon as I restart sendmail 
>>> these queued mails are sent immediately.
>>>
>>> [root at knute knute]# mailq
>>>         /var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
>>> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
>>> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
>>> m5MItEsf002625       52 Sun Jun 22 11:55 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
>>>                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
>>> name look)
>>>                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
>>> m5MIrQFK002822       52 Sun Jun 22 11:53 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
>>>                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
>>> name look)
>>>                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
>>>         Total requests: 2
>>>
>> These extra emails are problems with the mailq (I think).
> ----
> I'm out...I abandoned sendmail for postfix years ago. A suggestion
> though...set up a server on your lan to handle relaying all outbound
> mail and use an smtp connection to that server instead of relying upon
> the local /usr/bin/sendmail binary. That pretty much solves the issue of
> configuring each workstation to handle mail deliveries.
> 
> Craig
> 

There are a million ways around the problem, but I'd really just like to 
fix it.

Thanks for trying though.

-- 
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com