F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Jun 23 13:36:40 UTC 2008


Knute Johnson wrote:


>>> I've got two installations of F9 running, one x86_64 and the other i386.
>>>   They both fail to send email initially but if I restart sendmail they
>>> send fine after that.  I'm using thunderbird and have it configured to
>>> use the local sendmail for sending.  The only thing I've modified in my
>>> sendmail.mc file is the masquerading.  Any ideas where to start looking?
>> 
>> It's very unlikely I can help if Craig White can't,
>> but doesn't it sound as if sendmail needs something
>> that starts after sendmail in /etc/rc.d ?
>> 
>> Why not try "chkconfig sendmail off" and then add "service sendmail
>> start" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and see if it works there.
>> 
>> Or you could try giving it a later prefix number in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ ?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately neither work.

Perhaps your sendmail needs NM to be already running?
I notice that NM starts extraordinarily late in Fedora-9,
after I have logged in.
This strikes me as slightly crazy, like a lot of things about NM.







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