On Thu, 02 Jan 2003, John just had to get this off his chest:
I have Suse Linux 8.1 installed. When I use mailq to view the message queue on the system I get:
linux:~ # mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 4BCAA18D12 4720 Thu Jan 2 12:17:59 WAYNE.MORGAN@TAGSOFT.COM (temporary failure) TONY@TAGSOFT.COM WAYNE@TAGSOFT.COM
E288518D1A 891 Thu Jan 2 12:17:59 john@tagsoft.com (temporary failure) JOHN@TAGSOFT.COM
-- 5 Kbytes in 2 Requests. linux:~ #
If I start kinternet, a connection is successfully established with our internet service provider but the emails do not get sent. Why?
You've probably configured the mailserver to be on a dailup box. That means you'll have to initiate a queue delivery yourself with 'mailq -q' In /etc/postfix/main.cf you find 'defer_transports = smtp' See /etc/postfix/sample-rate.cf for explanation. You can add 'mailq -q' to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local to kick the queue when a connection is established. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.