Actually, your reply reminded me of something strange (read: stupid) I
noticed. When I issued "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start" it actually
started postfix (damn Mandrake). The script was set to do sendmail, and
/usr/sbin/sendmail was not a link to postfix. Come to find out, the
sendmail binary had been replaced (during the install, because I now
recall this happening on another MDK system too) with a binary script to
call postfix. A simple:

rpm -e postfix
rpm -Uvh --force 3-SENDMAIL-RPMS.rpm

...and its working beautifully now. Thanks! :)

~Jay



On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, der.hans wrote:

> Am 29. Apr, 2001 schwäzte Jay so:
>
> > However, the message never arrives. Yet, when I startup sendmail||postfix
> > for a few minutes, then it sends out the previously written message.
> >
> > So, it would seem that what I compose with the "mail" command is just
> > queued, waiting for me to startup a MTA.
>
> Check your crons. Your MTA should run every 15 minutes to clean up the
> queues even if the daemon insn't up to allow incoming mail.
>
> > Is there a way to get the "mail" command to send a 'single-serving'
>
> rm -f /usr/bin/mail
> ln -s /usr/bin/pine /usr/bin/mail
>
> :)
>
> Actually, though, I thought mail attempted to call sendmail, which would
> then automagically send the mail out. In any case the queue cron should
> catch it.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>