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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sending mail in the dead.letter file Post 302176495 by mjdavies on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 11:27:37 AM
Old 03-18-2008
Sending mail in the dead.letter file

Sorry for this one ladies and gents, it's probably very easy but I don't know how to, sound familiar :-)

I'm using sendmail on a web server that sends some mail through forms, not many.

I've got sendmail configured to use our networks relay host and everything was working well.

The power went off on the weekend, and when I came in I noticed that all mail was bouncing, the reason being that I hadn't configured the networking settings properly and the FQDN of the web server was not being recognised by the mail server and not allowing the mail to go through it.

I've sorted that out now, and I can send mail through the relay again.

Question is how do I send the emails that are in the dead.letter file?

mailq is empty

:-(

Any help or tips will be gratly appreciated.
 

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local.users(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						    local.users(4)

NAME
local.users - Specifies mail recipients on the local host. DESCRIPTION
The local.users file contains a list of user names whose mail is to be delivered to the local host and whose return address is user- name@hostname. Entries in the local.hosts file are in addition to other local users (such as root and postmaster). See sendmail.cf(4) for a description of other local users. You can add entries to this file if the host is configured as a simple client and either of the following is true: The user wants their mail delivered on this machine rather than being forwarded to the mail server. You are adding aliases to the /var/adm/sendmail/aliases file. When the host is configured as a simple client, the alias must be added to this file and the aliases file. A simple client is defined as a host that had the mail system configured using the MailConfig application from the System Management utili- ties or configured using the mailsetup utility's Quick Setup menu. The format of the file is as follows: User names are separated by blanks or new lines. Multiple user name can be specified on a line. Blank lines are ignored. A comment mark (#) ends the line. After modifying the local.users file, you must restart the sendmail daemon to apply the changes. Use the following command: # /sbin/init.d/sendmail restart EXAMPLES
root postmaster rw # A comment followed by an ignored blank line. # Another comment. mariah # Another comment. carey # Leading blanks are acceptable. FILES
Specifies the path name for the file. RELATED INFORMATION
Files: sendmail.cf(4). delim off local.users(4)
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