Besides the items already mentioned, by handing off to sendmail, you actually don't send the message immediately -- you place the message in the mail queue, and the system processes it when it feels like. If the main mail daemon dies, then no mail will be sent out, and no error messages will be generated.

I'd check the webserver and mail logs first (I can't remember if Solaris 7 defaulted to putting mail in a seperate log file, it might be in one of the other log files that syslog manages). I'd also check the mail queue (you can get a report from the 'mailq' command, the files should be in /var/spool/mail).

In reply to Re: Sendmail no longer working by jhourcle
in thread Sendmail no longer working by Anonymous Monk

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