As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block
_forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual
value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily
seem like it's frozen.
-Bill
Mike Tancsa wrote:
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> The place where I have come across this
The place where I have come across this is on DNS timeouts. e.g. if you
have an IP address on an interface that has as its DNS a non reachable
server (for whatever reason), sendmail will block until it gets an answer
either way. Do all the PTR records for your IP addresses on the machine in
q
Hi everyone,
have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq
returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or
output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc
(the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue
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