Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> writes:

> I've been trying to tune my migration from Courier to
> sendmail 8.13.8 on a Fedora Core 5 box (current patches).
> I get most mail in and out quickly, but some messages just
> sit in the queue (/var/spool/mqueue). I have tried to flush
> some of these messages with /usr/lib/sendmail -v -q -qI99999.
> The process starts and says it is connecting to the remote
> host, then it just sits there until I kill (^c) the process.
> Why are things sticking in the queue and why are the messages
> I try to flush from the queue just sitting there?

Can you telnet SMTP (25) port on the hosts sendmail mentions?
*NO* =>
Most likely your ISP blocked outgoing SMTP
connections [to block *outgoing* spam (mainly MS zombies)]
Fix: use your ISP mail server as smart host
define(`SMART_HOST',`...')
*YES* =>
post exactly what sendmail reports when you issue
/sendmail -v -q -qI_xxxxx_

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