FOLLOWUP: F9: Outgoing mail using "mail" doesn't work

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Sat Sep 20 20:30:39 UTC 2008


Around 04:58pm on Saturday, September 20, 2008 (UK time), Eric scrawled:

> 
> OK, here's the deal.
> 
> Every time I boot up Fedora 9, in either my "real" machine or my 
> VMware virtual machine, sendmail comes up in some kind of goofball 
> misbehaving state where it thinks it is sending mail out, and 
> /var/log/maillog claims it sent the mail out, but the mail just sits 
> there in /var/spool/mqueue and never actually gets sent.
> 
> If I go in as root and say "/etc/init.d/sendmail restart" then it 
> appears to work from that time forward, until the next reboot.
> 
> I tried adding "/etc/init.d/sendmail restart" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local 
> but that didn't work until I added "sleep 5" before the "sendmail 
> restart" line, now it seems to work from bootup.

Do you use NetworkManager or network?

Steve 

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