On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:50:11 +1000, Res wrote:

> 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

Sendmail is started from the rc.sendmail file shipped with
Slackware 12. According to that file (which I have not modified) sendmail
is started as follows:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m
/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q25m

I seem to have sorted it out but, unfortunately, I am not sure
how :-( I monkeyed a bit with sendmail.cnf and after restarting sendmail
the diagnostic line above becomes:

Oct 8 11:15:28 folkvang sm-mta[11228]: l98IAUY0011177:
to=<xxx@my_server.my_domain.net>, delay=00:04:58, xdelay=00:00:01,
mailer=local, pri=210896, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

and everything works fine. The problem is, after reinstating the original
sendmail.cnf and restarting, everything still works!