Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 4 159
Installing and Administering sendmail
Troubleshooting sendmail
Mail Queue (3 requests)
---QID--- --Size-- ----Q-Time---- ----Sender/Recipient-----
AA15841 86 Wed Feb 9 07:08 janet
(Deferred: Connection refused by med.hub.com)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
AA15794 1482 Wed Feb 9 07:57 carole
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
AA15792 10169 Wed Feb 9 07:57 chuck
[e-mail]
sys6!sysloc!njm
[e-mail]
The first entry is a message with queue ID AA15841 and a size of 86
bytes. The message arrived in the queue on Wednesday, February 9 at
7:08 a.m. The sender was janet. She sent a message to the recipients
[e-mail] and [e-mail]. sendmail has already
attempted to route the message, but the message remains in the queue
because its SMTP connection was refused. This usually means that the
SMTP server is temporarily not running on the remote host, but it also
occurs if the remote host never runs an SMTP server. sendmail
attempts to deliver this message the next time the mail queue is
processed.
Two other messages in the queue are also routed for delivery the next
time the mail queue is processed.
If mailq is run in verbose mode (with the -v option), then when it prints
the queue, it will also show the priority of each queued message.
The Files in the Mail Queue
The files that sendmail creates in the mail queue all have names of the
form zzTAAnnnnn, where zz is the type of the queue file and TAA is an
identifier used to distinguish separate queue entries that happen to have