Subject: Re: Re[2]: stupid questions about sendmail
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/2005 16:47:37
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> In article <E1D27dw-0000sS-00.dlagno-mail-ru__44279.6410796747$1108732874$gmane$org@f26.mail.ru>,
> 	Denis Lagno <dlagno@mail.ru> writes:
>>>> <snip>
>>>> However I observe strange behaviour of sendmail.
>>>> When flam is not connected to Internet (only to LAN) then
>>>> it can not redirect mail:
>>>>
>>>> j1I0T7FM013366      419 Fri Feb 18 03:29 <root@flam.gado>
>>>>                  (Deferred: Name server: chup.gado.: host name lookup
>>>> failure) dina@chup
>>>> j1I0T93I013347     2351 Fri Feb 18 03:29 <root@flam.gado>
>>>>                  (Deferred: Name server: chup.gado.: host name lookup
>>>> failure) dina@chup
>
>>>> When I rise Internet connection on flam.gado via GPRS then
>>>> mail is successfully sent.

Are you sure that the mail haven't been queued?
You know that there are two different mail queues nowadays?
To check the outgoing mail, you should run "mailq -Ac"
(Don't know offhand what the equivalent sendmail command is.)

 	Johnny

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