That is a handy tip, but the mail is not being delivered (internally, even
between local users) at all, even if the machine is left up for 12+ hours.
Fetchmail grabs it from my isp, but it just sits in the mail queue, and is
never delivered.
At 05:02 AM 4/30/98 -0700, Bradley Kieser wrote:
>Ronald
>
>You can force a send by issuing:
>
> sendmail -q
>
>when you have dialled into your ISP.
>
>The defualt RH timeout for delivreing mail is every hour. I changed that
>to every 10 mins, and now I don't have mail queues. This is set up in the
>sendmail startup (the paramater -q1h should become -q10m) in the
>/etc/rc.d directory structure. I think that it's in the file rc.local,
>but someone else needs to confirm that as I don't have my RH installation
>handy at the moment.
>
>Hope that this helps,
>
>Brad
>
>
>
>===
>Bradley Kieser
>
>
>
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>---Ronald Pottol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I have a fresh red hat 5 install, done with the "install everything"
>> option, static ip dial up ppp to my isp, and ethernet to my local lan,
>> which is using the 10.10.10.0 network, and ip masquerading to reach the
>> internet. I can send mail, I can check the mail at my isp, but I have one
>> problem. Local mail is not being delivered. It is in /var/spool/mqueue,
>> where it just sits. What am I missing? I have checked the appropriate
>faqs
>> (or so I think). I am using an unregistered domain internally. I can
>ping,
>> ftp, what have you, eudora on my NT machine seem to work just fine though
>> my masqueraded linux box to my isp.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
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