Re: sending mail out

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

Forgot to tell you the happy end of this story. It took me less than
an hour to download, install and configure postfix. So, if you have a
problem with senmail, get rid of it :-)

<please_ignore_this>sendmail sucks!!</please_ignore_this>

Viktor


>>>>> "VP" == Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com> writes:

    VP> This is what I found in one of files in /var/spool/mqueue:
    VP> Mhost map: lookup (as.fis.mt.nec.co.jp): deferred

    VP> This certainly causes the problem...

    VP> Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
    >>  [...]  I edited the suggested line in sendmail.cf:
    >> 
    >> # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS10.20.30.40
    >> 
    >> where 10.20.30.40 is IP address of SMTP, restarted sendmail,
    >> sent a message from vm. This is what appeared in
    >> /var/log/maillog:
    >> 
    >> Sep 29 11:33:06 localhost sendmail[7293]: LAA07293:
    >> from=vp@example.com, size=325, class=0, pri=30325,
    >> nrcpts=1,
    >> msgid=<14803.65378.75878.464124@example.com>,
    >> relay=vik@example.com Sep 29 11:33:06 localhost sendmail[7293]:
    >> LAA07293: to=vp@example.com, delay=00:00:00,
    >> mailer=relay, stat=queued
    >> 
    >> And the mail stays in /var/spool/mqueue...
    >> 
    >> Viktor