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Re: Newbie Problem



On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:07:23AM -0400, Tod Thomas quoth:
> I've installed qmail and according to qmailctl stat everything is
> working fine.  The only problem is I can't send outgoing email from my
> server.
> 
> The server lives within an intranet, so I know the name of the SMTP
> gateway and know it accepts connections on port 25.  Currently my server
> has no reason to accept incoming mail so I don't need that configured,
> but some day I'd like it to manage an internal mailing list.
> 
> By now I have messed around with the configuration so much I think I've
> managed to mess things up.  Sending only outgoing email seemed like a
> fairly straight forward thing to do.
> 
> Could anybody offer some pointers?  

Make sure that qmail-send is up and running, you can use qmailctl or you
can run "svstat /service/qmail-send" --- as long as it's been up more
than 1 or 2 seconds, then you're doing well.

If it's only been up for 1 or 2 (or maybe even 0) seconds, then you have
a problem with your qmail-send run script.

If it's been up for much longer, then either your mail isn't getting
*into* the queue, or it hasn't been able to send it. You can use
"qmailctl queue" to display what is currently in the qmail queue---if
you just sent mail, it should show up. If it doesn't show up, you need
to find out why: try to send mail, and watch your qmail logs: they
should indicate a new message, and should tell you what happens to it.
If not, send  us more information, like the output of qmail-showctl and
the contents of your run files.

~Kyle

-- 
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
-- Heisenberg

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