OK so the mail.debug worked and captured when mail failed. However, when I did a cat of the mail.debug file all of the queued mail sent, I didn't do anything to stop/start sendmail or kill the sendmail ps, it just sent.
Here is part of the mail.debug file (it's too long to put all of it here) let me know if you need more, but it looks like the same, just repeating over and over.
Apr 8 13:14:20 *hostname removed* cms: [ID 702911 mail.debug] this is a test
Apr 8 13:15:01 *hostname removed* sendmail[6223]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m38HA1gP006108: to=*email address removed*, ctladdr=cms (101/200), delay=00:05:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120080, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 8 13:16:26 *hostname removed* sendmail[6422]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m38HGQKL006422: from=cms, size=88, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200804081716.m38HGQKL006422@*hostname removed*.t
empdomain.org>, relay=cms@localhost
Apr 8 13:16:26 *hostname removed* sendmail[6422]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m38HGQKL006422: to=*email address removed*, ctladdr=cms (101/200), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30088, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 8 13:17:15 *hostname removed* sendmail[6450]: [ID 702911 mail.info] starting daemon (8.13.6+Sun): SMTP+queueing@00:15:00
Apr 8 13:17:15 *hostname removed* sendmail[6451]: [ID 702911 mail.info] starting daemon (8.13.6+Sun): queueing@00:15:00
Apr 8 13:17:15 *hostname removed* sendmail[6453]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m38HGQKL006422: to=*email address removed*, ctladdr=cms (101/200), delay=00:00:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120088, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
- Stinney
Favorite all too common vendor responses: "We've never seen this issue before." AND "No one's ever wanted to use it like that before.