Re: [PLUG] where'd these emails go ?

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@netaxs.com>]

> > Are they still in the mailq?  If not, you can ask some of the senders if
> 
> How would I know ?

There's a mailq command, which will list messages in your outgoing mail
queue.  To have sendmail attempt to retry each message in the queue, you
can issue a "sendmail -v -q".  Or, to retry only a particular message,
use -qI<queue-id>, a particular recipient, -qR<recipient>, or a sender,
-qS<sender>.  The queue-id, sender, or recipient strings can be substrings,
as well.

> > they received a bounce message.
> 
> There were no bounced messages.

My guess would be that they're still in the queue, then.

> > By the way, the zonefile that we (Netaxs) are pulling from you has the same
> > serial that your ns.iqgroup.com nameserver is reporting, however our server
> > doesn't have a hill.iqgroup.com host defined while yours does.  Did you
> > perhaps forget to increment the serial number after making changes?
> 
> Perceptive as always...
> 
> I didn't forget.  Mail isn't supposed to be getting relayed to hill right
> now, so it I just added the entry real quick w/out bothering to increment
> the serial number.  I'll go do that. 

Okay.  The reason I mentioned it was because sendmail wasn't able to
resolve the hill.iqgroup.com smart host.  You also might want to check
what nameservers it's attempting to use in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

-mct