Thanks for pointing out that I should look in /var/spool/mqueue like 
it said in the output I posted!  I told you I had a bad attitude on 
this subject |-(

At 1:42 PM -0600 2/22/01, Mike Bush wrote:
>They are waiting to be sent. Can you 'nslookup hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov' on that
>machine? If not, make sure named is running or fix your /etc/resolv.conf

Generally yes, no problem.  There are occasional glitches.

>If the messages arent important kill sendmail and clean out
>/var/spool/mqueue (restarting sendmail when your finished).

The messages are most likely daily output like the one that includes 
the complaint about the 4 queued requests ;-)

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
>To: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:02 PM
>Subject: Some Help with SendMail, Please?
>
>
> > I'm getting these notices in the daily output:
> >
> > mail:
> > /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
> > ----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-------
>-----
> > eAABTrE01158       50 Fri Nov 10 03:29 root
> >                   (host map: lookup (hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov): deferred)
> >        hotzmail@hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov
> > f0NBbiw14521       50 Tue Jan 23 03:37 root
> >                   (host map: lookup (hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov): deferred)
> >        hotzmail@hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov
> > eAABFUE00568     2207 Fri Nov 10 03:15 root
> >                   (host map: lookup (hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov): deferred)
> >        hotzmail@hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov
> > f0NBFEj13930     2780 Tue Jan 23 03:15 root
> >                   (host map: lookup (hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov): deferred)
> >        hotzmail@hotzsun.jpl.nasa.gov
> >
> > I don't know what they mean.  /var/mail is completely empty.  Are
> > they messages that never got delivered?  Messages that just had
> > hiccups?  I suppose there is some kind of cleanup that I'm supposed
> > to do, but why is my intervention required?
> >
> > Sendmail is one of those packages that I just want to forget about
> > because it's so complex in relation to the functionality of interest.
> > Bad attitude, I know.  Should I switch to postfix?

I actually have sendmail turned off in rc.config on this machine. 
Outgoing mail gets out anyway though.  Hmmm. . .  Oh well.  DFIIIAB 
(Don't Fix It If It Ain't Broke).


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