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From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: sendmail problems
Keywords: sendmail, problems, NeXT
Message-ID: <12299@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 90 08:44:43 GMT
Sender: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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All of sudden, one day (well, Feb 1 to be exact) our sendmail daemon
(still running) decided to stop -- well -- sending mail. Stuff just
queues up, with an "X" in the second mailq column.

Killing and restarting sendmail has no effect. Cleaning up the queue
has (you guessed it) no effect. And telnetting to our machine on
port 25 (the SMTP port) yields a timeout, as if sendmail isn't waiting
there for us at all.

Is this at all common? Does anyone have a clue? We don't.


					Eric Ly