[Asterisk-Users] OT: Sendmail question

[Christoph Eicke]

On Friday 12 August 2005 11:46, Rudolf Ladyzhenskii wrote:
> Old messages are in the queue.
>
> I can see sendmail is trying to talk to the remote mail server, but never
> gets a responce and times out. So message stays in the queue.
>

You should try and deliver them yourself. It sounds to me like sendmail is 
configured to relay messages using a smart host (the one it's trying to talk 
to). Do you maybe need to log in to that host in order to send mail? You can 
try this out yourself: set the DNS name of the mail server it relays it to 
in /etc/hosts to your local host, don't start sendmail as a server daemon 
(shouldn't bind to port 25) and do a "nc -lt -p 25" and look what it's trying 
to do when sending mail via the command line.

Christoph