On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, H.K. Kingston-Smith wrote:

>
> I have set up an email server in one of my boxes, running
>
> to=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=web35615.mail.mud.yyy.com [66.163.179.154]

Ok, received well so far..



> Oct 8 10:42:41 folkvang sm-mta[10997]: l98HdWwt010995:
> to=<xxx@my_server.my_domain.net>, delay=00:03:09, xdelay=00:03:09,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=121252, relay=my_server.my_domain.net. [xx.yy.zz.aa],
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with
> my_server.my_domain.net

What sendmail instances are running? Sounds like the queue runner is not
running

> come it can't connect to itself? The messages received are sitting in
> /var/spool/mqueue, waiting to be delivered to the local users they are

Are you starting like this?, dont worry if -L options differ, it's the
arguments after that, that matter.

/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sendmail -bd -q15m
/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m


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Cheers
Res