Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:33:00 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, William F. Maton wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > > > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > > > platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, > > > use qmail instead", perhaps we should look at this problem and refute > > > these statements -- I think that sendmail is causing this problem. The > > > version is sendmail 8.9.3 > > > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? > > > > I am running sendmail-8.11-0.Beta3 on Linux 2.4.0-test9. I didn't > have any problem with it (except that the documentation sucks, > making it extremely difficult to configure). Once configured, it runs > fine. It also ran fine on Linux-2.2.17. > > If something is staying in the mail-queue `mailq`, this means that > the daemon isn't running. It may have crashed. This can be caused > by somebody keeping some mailer entry in /etc/inetd.conf. Sendmail > has to run as a daemon with no other interference on port 25. > Check the configuration.
I did Dick. The config is fine. The daemon is also fine and running. What's really weird is that even if I do a "sendmail -v -q" command (which should force the queue to flush) it still doesn't.
Jeff
> > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.0 on an i686 machine (799.54 BogoMips). > > "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of > course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation > obtained from the Micro$oft help desk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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