[Techtalk] sendmail on NetBSD

[Brenda Bell]

I'm running a NetBSD firewall which is working out well.  I have it set up
to send all of root's emails to a qmail server running on a Mandrake box. 
About once every 2-3 weeks, I get an email that gets "hung".  The output
from a cron job reports the following:

mail:
                /var/spool/mqueue (6 requests)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
h2T8HYA07762      180 Sat Mar 29 03:17 root
                 (host map: lookup (theotherbell.com): deferred)
                                       root at theotherbell.com
h6P7H6709532      180 Fri Jul 25 03:17 root
                 (host map: lookup (theotherbell.com): deferred)
                                       root at theotherbell.com
h6P7F0w08970     1815 Fri Jul 25 03:15 root
                 (host map: lookup (theotherbell.com): deferred)
                                       root at theotherbell.com
h4I7GfH07597      180 Sun May 18 03:16 root
                 (Deferred: Connection refused by bellux.theotherbell.com.)
                                       root at theotherbell.com
h2T8F5507199     1403 Sat Mar 29 03:15 root
                 (Deferred: Name server: bellux.theotherbell.com: host name lo)
                                       root at theotherbell.com
h4I7F0E07035     1510 Sun May 18 03:15 root
                 (Deferred: Connection refused by bellux.theotherbell.com.)
                                       root at theotherbell.com

The problem seems to be connected to my DSL connection getting dropped when
my ISP does maintenance but I need to do some digging to determine exactly
what's happening.

In the meantime, is there a command I can run that will flush the deferred
deliveries?

-- 
Brenda
http://opensource.theotherbell.com