F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:02 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >> Knute Johnson wrote:
> >>> That didn't fix it.  The mail got queued though which is another problem 
> >>> that occurs sometimes along with this.  As soon as I restart sendmail 
> >>> these queued mails are sent immediately.
> >>>
> >>> [root at knute knute]# mailq
> >>>         /var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
> >>> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
> >>> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> >>> m5MItEsf002625       52 Sun Jun 22 11:55 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >>>                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
> >>> name look)
> >>>                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >>> m5MIrQFK002822       52 Sun Jun 22 11:53 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >>>                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
> >>> name look)
> >>>                      <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
> >>>         Total requests: 2
> >>>
> >> These extra emails are problems with the mailq (I think).
> > ----
> > I'm out...I abandoned sendmail for postfix years ago. A suggestion
> > though...set up a server on your lan to handle relaying all outbound
> > mail and use an smtp connection to that server instead of relying upon
> > the local /usr/bin/sendmail binary. That pretty much solves the issue of
> > configuring each workstation to handle mail deliveries.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> There are a million ways around the problem, but I'd really just like to 
> fix it.
> 
> Thanks for trying though.
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I feel that you missed my point.

If you are going to rely upon configuring sendmail on each machine on
your LAN to deliver e-mail, you need to have working DNS and some
knowledge on how to configure sendmail. That's what's required to fix
it. You are choosing your own burdens here.

Craig