Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

slave-mike slave-mike at rv1.dynip.com
Thu Nov 6 19:56:05 PST 2003


You need to configure sendmail to route via your ISP's SMTP gateway.
Many IP's are listed in a 'dial up user blacklist', and yahoo, aol, etc
will reject your mail otherwise.

REF: SmartHost in you sendmail config. webmin is your friend.

chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote on 11/06/2003 01:23:22 PM:
> 
> 
>>What does 'mailq' tell you?
>>_______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Here is the results of mailq -
> 
> simradusa# mailq | less
>                 /var/spool/mqueue (8 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> hA6KKrBZ004086        5 Thu Nov  6 12:20 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.)
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.)
>                                          <carvin5string at yahoo.com>
> hA6K6bBZ004057        5 Thu Nov  6 12:06 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.pioneernet.net.)
>                                          <chip at wiegand.org>
> hA6IAdBZ003813       38 Thu Nov  6 10:10 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours)
>                                          <chip at wiegand.org>
> hA6HF9BZ003680        5 Thu Nov  6 09:15 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.)
>                                          <chip.wiegand at simrad.com>
> hA4Gc7wG000649       30 Tue Nov  4 08:38 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.)
>                                          <carvin5string at yahoo.com>
> hA4GXHwG000641       15 Tue Nov  4 08:33 <autopilots at simradusa.com>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.)
>                                          <chip.wiegand at simrad.com>
> hA4FCFdC099301       21 Tue Nov  4 07:12 <autopilots at simradusa>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.)
>                                          <carvin5string at yahoo.com>
> hA4F8udC099278       13 Tue Nov  4 07:08 <autopilots at simradusa>
>                  (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.)
>                                          <chip.wiegand at simrad.com>
>                 Total requests: 8
> (END)
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