On 05Sep2008 07:09, Peter Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And the "mailq" command should recite the queue of unsent messages, if >> any. >> > Ah, this could be revealing. I get: > postqueue: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down > > I don't know how to troubleshoot or start the mailsystem, but that gives > me something to Google.
As root, "postfix start" should do it. But the system should already be up. Indeed, the presence of entries in the log suggests it was at some point. If you start it, the command "postfix flush" can force a rerun of deferred items in the queue. You don't normally need to do that because they will get rerun anyway, but for debugging it is useful to watch things (fail) right not. Having a "tail -f the-log-file" running in another terminal is handy too. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable as ones hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen
