Re: [cobalt-users] Outoing SMTP dead - Incoming POP appears OK

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I do not know sendmail very well, but a quick glance at mailq reveals a
> whole ton of messages with a whole bunch of (host map:  lookup (domain.com);
> deferred) error messages.  There are 4 mail queues under
> var/spool/mqueue  - all of which are full of 50-200 messages in each   - all
> with the same error.

What is the error?

> There were some minor DNS RR changes made recently as a result of an ISP IP
> change, but these changes should have all propogated by now - nslookup and
> ping tests of many name servers (and from diff. ISP networks) reveal this is
> true.
> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
OR 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail hard-restart

You also should try 
ps ax | grep sendmail
 2158 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
You should see something like the above!

Gerald