Re: serialmail suddenly stops working

Paulo Jan <[email protected]>:

> 	Nevermind. It turns out that it started working by itself a
> 	few hours later...

things rarely do anything "by itself".

> 	We had a DNS server crash during the weekend, and when it went
> 	back up Monday morning (which is when it all happened), the
> 	mail server started sending away all the mail that had been
> 	queued up in the previous hours. Which might have to do with
> 	the serialmail problem, but as I mentioned, the bandwidth
> 	usage wasn't high at all. Oh well...

so check the DNS logs!  if i were in your shoes, i'd make sure i
understand every tiny bit involved here.  hope you're not running
complicated beasts like BIND.

  clemens