Re: FN-FORUM: mailing from PHP fun

date posted 11th June 2003 23:14

Dan Norcott [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> Don't know much about the system log file (am new to linux (as poor old Rus

Try looking in /var/log/maillog if it's a Linux box.

> will testify)) - but mailq returns a bit list of stuff, which seems to
> say to me that all the other mails have been passed to sendmail but are
> languishing there unsent.

What does mailq say? It should give some kind of reason, like "deferred".

> What would you suspect is the problem, from this admitted paucity of
> information?

That the default sendmail config file isn't configured for sending of mail,
so they're just queuing there on the machine.

Does the machine have DNS configured? That minute or so pause whilst
mail has been submitted from PHP hints of a timeout while waiting for
a DNS lookup to send the mail.

-Paul-

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