Sendmail is queuing, but not sending...

[jxfish2]

sendmail appears to be configured properly, but any mail I try to send using the mailx command just queues up. It's not sending anything out.

I have entries for the mail server in /etc/hosts.

I have Dj and DS entries in sendmail.cf

( I had to create a Dj (DNS) entry, as this server isn't registered in DNS.

I have 4 other servers where mailx / sendmail is working just fine, and I compared all of these entries against the other boxes.

Again, the test mail that I tried to send is going into the mail queue, but it's just sitting there...

What could I be missing?

Thanks in advance, and have a great weekend...

Joe F.

 

[aixmurderer]

What does the entries of the mail queue show? (mailq command)

Did you try kicking the queue off it manually? (sendmail -v -q)

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[Rhinokiller]

This is more than likely a problem with your DNS setup.It may be that although the mail server is being resolved properly the MX record is not being resolved. Try removing your forwarders and use root servers instead.

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