In message <200304010011.h310BoDg010657@aluminum.miller.net>, Thomas Miller wri
tes:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>Thank you for your very helpful comments.  In particular, you said:
>
>> when you go back on-line, then the dns lookups can work again, so
>> the queue can be flushed.  
>
>Sometimes I go on line just for a moment and just for the purpose of
>sending mail.  So, the solution apparently is to "wake up" the 
>queue runner and get it to flush the clientmqueue as soon as I go on 
>line.  What would be the best way to to sound the reveille bugle?
>

It's been a long time since I've used sendmail, but 'sendmail -q'
is (according to the man page) the way to attempt delivery of each 
queued message.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)