Scanned but not Delivered - Solved!!

[Julian Field]

You shouldn't be using the sendmail init.d script at all! No wonder this
fixed it.

The MailScanner init.d script starts up all the required sendmail
processes, and should be used ***instead*** of the sendmail one. As it says
in the docs :)

At 05:36 15/08/2003, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Thank you very much for all the suggestions! We have discovered that
>emails are delivered on changing the entry "DAEMON=yes"  to "DAEMON=no" in
>"/etc/sysconfig/sendmail" .
>
>May be the experts can enlight us on the details!
>
>Regards,
>
>Alex
>
>
>Kevin Spicer said:
> >>Please let us know what we missed and how we can complete the delivery
> >>circle.
> >
> > The mail log (/var/log/mail/info on Mandrake) should tell you whats
> > happening when it tries to deliver - any clues there?
> >
> > Its possible that sendmail is failing to do DNS lookups, try running
> > nslookup or dig to check whether theres a firewall rule blocking this.
> >
> > Have you tried just running sendmail alone to relay mail?  Does it work?
> >
> > BTW once you've got it working you might want to tweak some of the
> > sendmail settings as Mandrakes default sendmail.mc/cf has some things
> > turned on that you probably don't want (like relay based on mx for
> > example).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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