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Jeff Ashurst (j@ashurst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I have no problem posting from Linux - here's proof.

: With email, however, the mail queue is set up OK and all looks well.
: After going online, the queue is run.  Subsequent check shows the queue to be
: empty.  But I have had no replies after mailing various people.  I have 
: responded to helpful setup suggestions, and emailed friends just as tests.

: I must conclude that mail is not being delivered, yet I have had no messages
: from Demon (my provider) about failed mail.

You don't mention which mail transport you're using or how it is configured
would you like to expand on it so that we can see if it's a problem with
demon or with your config.

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alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:

>Jeff Ashurst (j@ashurst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: I have no problem posting from Linux - here's proof.

>: With email, however, the mail queue is set up OK and all looks well.

>: I must conclude that mail is not being delivered, yet I have had no messages
>: from Demon (my provider) about failed mail.

>You don't mention which mail transport you're using or how it is configured
>would you like to expand on it so that we can see if it's a problem with
>demon or with your config.

Thanks Anthony, and to others who responded, including Michael who emailed me
but to who, because of this problem, I haven't replied to directly.

I'm using sendmail.  Taking clues from all your comments, I've hunted through 
all the logs and found mail status=Deferred for outgoing mail, with a 
hostname lookup failure against post.demon.co.uk (Demon's mail host) - which 
surprises me because the same host handles postings like this.  Local copies 
of email addressed to myself are always delivered.

I must now look through my setup to see why the lookup failure is occurring.
If anyone can help short-cut this process, I will be interested to hear.

Meanwhile, thanks to all who responded for shining the light.

Regards

Jeff

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In article <DGKC8w.5IK@ashurst.demon.co.uk>,
	Jeff Ashurst <j@ashurst.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> I'm using sendmail.  Taking clues from all your comments, I've hunted through 
> all the logs and found mail status=Deferred for outgoing mail, with a 
> hostname lookup failure against post.demon.co.uk (Demon's mail host) - which 
> surprises me because the same host handles postings like this.  Local copies 
> of email addressed to myself are always delivered.

This is normal for a dial-up host, since without DNS access,
post.demon.co.uk cannot be resolved at submission time - it doesn't
matter.

When you connect to demon, do:

   /usr/lib/sendmail -q -v

and you should see messages being sent (or if not, the reason).
(sendmail might live somewhere else on Linux; I don't know.)

Also, you could look in your syslog file (/var/log/syslog on
Solaris, again might be somewhere else on Linux). This records
various sendmail logs.

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