Re: occational lost mail

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> when i have problems sending, it's always with 'sendmail' . if i use direct
> SMTP, i have no problems (even with this suspect server) all mail submitted to
> this group is via 'sendmail' so it does work! the mail is never returned, just
> disappears into the 'net' somewhere!
> 


Check /var/log/messages[1] - what is sendmail logging when you send a mail to 
the remote machine?

Chris...
[1] or /var/adm/messages[2]
[2] or /var/log/maillog[3]
[3] or, you've guessed it, /var/adm/maillog[4]
[4] depending on how syslog is configured - see /etc/syslog.conf


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