Sendmail problem

[Kevin Martin]

On 08/05/2014 09:37 AM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
> Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails
> have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages:
> 
>> # mailq
>> 		/var/spool/mqueue (1 request)
>> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
>> s75EJYwb013189*    3981 Tue Aug  5 10:19 <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>
>>                  (Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.localdomain.homeip)
>> 					 <recipient at gmail.com>
>> 		Total requests: 1
> 
> It takes a manual flush (/usr/local/bin/runq, where runq is a script to
> run: sendmail -q) to send them out.
> 
> Initially I thought this was a name server problem, but even after
> adding entries to /etc/hosts for localhost.localdomain.homeip.net (to
> point to 127.0.0.1) my sent emails keep queueing up and not being sent
> out.  But I can now flush them manually.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?  And why is localhost.localdomain being
> prepended to my local domain name in the mqueue?  I'm fairly sure this
> is my problem.  What happened on July 30th?  My yum logs show that no
> updates were applied between July 28 @ 22:46 and August 2 @ 00:50, but
> my outgoing emails started hanging up on July 29 or 30th....
> 
> I have resorted to adding a crontab entry to flush my mailq every 5
> minutes in the meantime.
> 

Do you have a sendmail daemon running and/or did you restart it after adding the entry to /etc/hosts?  Have you checked your cf
file(s) to see if something changed (not thru yum)?

Kevin