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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EMail Blues...
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:26:52 GMT
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Chris Millikin <chrism@best.com> wrote:

> 	We are primarily using pop3 (Eudora Light) clients to access
> email.  When used localy (i.e. within our network) it works great,
> the problem is with email coming from the internet, or even sent
> localy with "@somedomain.com" tagged on.  The mail seems to be
> finding the machine (I've seen it in /var/spool/mqueue) but it's not
> distributing to the clients mailboxes.

[Please, limit your line length to < 75 characters.]

If it's in /var/spool/mqueue, it looks like sendmail cannot pass it on
to where it thinks it should go to.  Run the command `mailq', and see
what it's telling you as the reason for why it kept the mail in the
queue.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)