Figured it out [was Outgoing Mail Queue]

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> 2.   The startup script as its written automatically runs the sm-client
> to process
>        on the outgoing mailqueue as specified in submit.cf.  If
> submit.cf is used, local
>        email is not delivered.  The startup script that comes with the
> rpm is useless.
>        Mail willl simply build up in the Outoing Queue Dir.
>
> To that end, I used the commands that go with the tarball installation
> and all works fine and I changed the "run as user =" and "run as group
> =" lines.

> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q5m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.out -c
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

If you alter paths and defaults you can expect behaviour like this. As far
as i know the defaults for the outgoing queue is not mqueue.out, but
mqueue. If you call sendmail directly, like a lot of programs do, it will
place mail in mqueue, not mqueue.out. I wonder if its smart to make
changes like this at all.

Just my 2 cents.

Bye,
Raymond.

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