Re: Configuring sendmail on Mac OS X (Leopard)?

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, September  5 at 07:09 AM, quoth Peter Davis:
> Thanks.  I looked here, and see messages like this:
>
> Sep  4 22:02:31 PFD-Studio-Mac postfix/smtp[88615]: C037B4D62348: 
> to=<pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=none, delay=30,
> delays=0.2/0.05/30/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to 
> mailwash17.pair.com[66.39.2.17]: Operation timed ou
> t)
>
> But that doesn't tell me much.

That tells you a lot, actually. It says that the connection to the 
remote mailserver could not be made. That could be for a lot of 
reasons, but the most likely is that your home ISP doesn't let 
ordinary folks like yourself send mail outside their network without 
funnelling it through their mail server (this is a common anti-spam 
technique). Try doing this:

     telnet mailwash17.pair.com 25

If that can't connect, then you have discovered the problem. If it 
does connect and you get the pair.com greeting, then the problem must 
be with postfix.

>> And the "mailq" command should recite the queue of unsent messages, 
>> if any.
>> 
> Ah, this could be revealing.  I get:
>
> postqueue: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
>
> I don't know how to troubleshoot or start the mailsystem, but that gives 
> me something to Google.

I think the default in 10.5 is to set up postfix in a queue-less mode, 
so that there is no actively running "mail system", it just starts up 
whenever you try to send an email and shuts down immediately 
thereafter.

~Kyle
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