Verily did xiamin write:

> i have a rather long mail queue, all of which is deferred, mostly because 
> some stupied aol server refused my connection, a sample:
>                 Mail Queue (13 requests)
> --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
> UAA05422       63 Mon Apr  7 20:34 ingerrn
>                  (Deferred: Connection refused by a.mr.aol.com.)
>                                    pidgeongrl@aol.com

> i got this from the daily output. how do clear these, or better yet, get 
> sendmail to resend these?

sendmail -q

or

sendmail -v -q
if you prefer to watch.

> sometimes my email to pidgeongrl@aol.com gets 
> through, but not always :( i was also wondering why this is? is it 
> because pine is using my sendmail rather than popping it to cris.com's 
> mail server?

Most likely, a.mr.aol.com got busy (load went up above a breakpoint) and
started refusing smtp connections.  "Connection refused by" pretty much
explains it.

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