From: noel Subject: Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware References: <69426af3$1@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; 168b179 git.gnome.org/pan2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Message-ID: <6949c24d$1@news.ausics.net> Date: 23 Dec 2025 08:12:29 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 28 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.slackware:35505 On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:34:40 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote: >> mailq - what does it say? > > It tells me there are mail message(s) waiting to be sent. > > > And unfortunately, sendmail -q (I use -v as well) while the network is > up has no effect, the mail is not sent, and mailq continues to report > that there is mail waiting to be sent. OK first, what is the reason? tail -n20 maillog (if you run it through amavis or mailscanner use -n60) (you can sanitise your server name, and any email addresses - so long as you are sure there is no typo in the emails - I suggest replace left hand side with xxxxxxxxxxxxx and leave the host/domain part intact) This might allow identifying the reason, else the next command will haver to be run again and again and again, when you should never have to. THEN postqueue -f