From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 17:18:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26869 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26864 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA14584; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:16:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: My Pine woes: smpt lost, mail sits in queue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > I decided to take you up on your suggestion. Now pine is sending my mail > into the queue as I would expect, and sendmail -q returns no errors. > However, the mail still sits in my queue. > > I must warn you, before today, i didn't know I even HAD sendmail on my > system. I guess it's standard issue... Yes...but you may not have it running. You have to either start it up from sysconfig with some flags (-bd, I think) or put it in rc.local or even rc at the end. If it's running it should show up in ps ax. Pine is a user agent for reading mail; sendmail is a transport agent for getting it out the door after you compose it. > > I tried to change the line as you suggested: > > To queue the outgoing change the line in sendmail.cf that says 0di > to 0dq. And/or add this to sendmail flags > > my sendmail.cf does not have any text matching "0d" at all. > I'm not sure what to add the the sendmail flags. Sorry, my mistake. It's Odi, not 0di. > > Thanks for all the help! > > Ken