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 <cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net> >> (Deferred: Connection refused by >> localhost.localdomain.homeip) >> <recipi...@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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
