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- From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Subject: Sendmail problem on AT&T unix 7300 (3b1).
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.184517.19016@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: wdp@gagme
- Lines: 41
- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:45:17 GMT
-
- I run sendmail 3.1 on my unixpc 7300 and I have a problem. Letters
- get stuck in the directory /usr/spool/smail/input and are not
- processed into the outgoing uucp spool to my mail server.
-
- I posted this recently and got two replies suggesting that I execute
- the 'runq' or 'mailq' programs manually. Trouble is, my system does
- not use either program. Sendmail has an option of -q that is supposed
- to do the same thing as runq, but when I execute 'sendmail -q' the HD
- spins a few seconds but the files remain in the /usr/spool/smail/input
- directory. There is a coresponding lock file in /usr/spool/smail/lock
- for each stuck letter. Even if I remove that lock file, the letters
- do not move.
-
- Now here is the strange part. This problem is intermittent. Some
- attempts will actually succede and some (most) fail as stated above.
- There is no apparent pattern to whether or not the mail attempt
- succedes. I use elm 2.3 as the mail interface and it seems to be
- working fine, depositing the letters, along with their headers and
- such, into smail/input, but sendmail does not pick up the ball and
- run with it.
-
- Is there some file in the /usr/lib/smail that has an effect on the
- activity of this part of sendmail? BTW I also use HDB uucp in the
- system. Actual uucp transfers work fine so I believe that sendmail is
- at fault. If I redirect a file directly into the mail command ...
-
- $ mail user@site.xxx <file.name <cr>
-
- ... that seems to work fine (although I have not done this often
- enough to find out if it always works).
-
- Can anyone please shed some light on this? I do a lot of mailing
- from my site and it is getting very annoying to say the least :-(. Is
- there some process that I lack? If so why does it work sometimes and
- not others? I just had a month where it worked fine almost every
- time. Now, after a re-boot, it is failing almost every time.
-
- Anyway, please help
-
- Thanks...
- Bill
-