Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail help

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Can anyone explain what the files are in:
>
> /home/spool/mqueue q1, q2, q3, q4
>
> I have some things in the q1-q4

Those are the outbound mail spools.

> The main reason I ask is a message was sent via the server and the
> recipients, all for the same domain name, never received it and
> there is some stuff in these directories.

You can see the contents of a file by going into a directory and using 
'cat' or 'less' to view the file...

> Is it possible that the server may not be sending mail to certain
> addresses? Is it possible one of these things maybe the message
> stuck on the server?

Probable.  Not sure why it wasn't delivered; check /var/log/maillog to 
see if the recipient server wasn't reachable or something... it 
should keep trying for up to 5 days before it gives up.

> If mail is in one of these directories, is there a way to force
> sendmail to send the unsent messages.

To get a list of queued messages, do 'sendmail -bp' or 'mailq'

To force queue processing, do 'sendmail -q'

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Bruce Timberlake

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