Sendmail problem

[Kevin Cummings]

Further information.  Both of the last 2 emails sent from my laptop have
been delivered immediately.  Its the emails I send out from my iPhone
that are getting caught in the queue.  I sent one to an external address
that queued up as described.  I sent another directly to my address, and
it got delivered immediately.  I don't remember making any changes to my
iPhone recently, either.

On 08/05/2014 10:56 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> 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
> 

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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at verizon.net
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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