[CentOS] Sendmail "Queued mail for delivery"

Sun Nov 22 15:14:05 UTC 2009
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> taking the information from your other posting of this thread you were
> using the sendmail binary to send the message. This leads to using the
> submission mechanism (that's ok and standard).
> 
> The MSP accepted your message - thus the "queued mail for delivery" log
> note - and tried to send it out using the MTA daemon part of your
> sendmail installation.
> 
> Until this is successful the message is kept queued in
> /var/spool/clientmqueue, to be queried by
> 
> mailq -Ac

Thanks very much for your useful posting.
The mail is arriving now without delay,
so the problem must just have been that my remote ISP
did not like me giving a local address.

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