Re: Configuring sendmail on Mac OS X (Leopard)?
On 05Sep2008 07:09, Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
As root, "postfix start" should do it. But the system should already be
up. Indeed, the presence of entries in the log suggests it was at some
point. If you start it, the command "postfix flush" can force a rerun of
deferred items in the queue. You don't normally need to do that because
they will get rerun anyway, but for debugging it is useful to watch
things (fail) right not. Having a "tail -f the-log-file" running in
another terminal is handy too.
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