mailq is not working in my server?
 

hi,
i am working on 172.21.128.141 server for PERT concept.
but in this server mailq is not working. how to configure this server?

What distro?
What version of the distro?
What mail program are you using?
What errors are you getting?

mail not send?
 

i tried with following
and i am getting like below:

bash-2.03# /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: V9/Sun: No such file or directory
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Cwlocalhost: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names: No such file or directory
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: CP.: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DSinccisss0001.in.alcatel-lucent.com: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: CO: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: C..: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: C[[: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: FR-o: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Karith: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DR: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DH: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Kdequote: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: C{E}root: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DM: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DnMAILER-DAEMON: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: CPREDIRECT: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DZ8.11.7: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: O: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Pfirst-class=0: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Pspecial-delivery=100: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users: No such file or directory
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Troot: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Tdaemon: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: Tuucp: command not found
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 502: syntax error near unexpected token `<$g>'
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 502: `H?P?Return-Path: <$g>'
bash-2.03#
You have mail in /var/mail//root
bash-2.03# su
# /usr/lib/sendmail -C./sendmail.cf -v root
hi 141 server
root... Connecting to local...
220 andd141 LMTP ready
>>> LHLO andd141.in.alcatel-lucent.com
250-andd141
250-8BITMIME
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 PIPELINING
>>> MAIL From:<root>
250 2.5.0 ok
>>> RCPT To:<root>
250 2.1.5 ok
>>> DATA
354 go ahead
>>> .
250 2.1.5 root OK
root... Sent
Closing connection to local
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 bye
#
but mail has not sent.

how to resolve this?

Interesting - you didn't answer a single one of the questions I asked.

Since you're playing with sendmail.cf it appears you're using sendmail.

First off: You do not run sendmail.cf by typing it at command line - that is why you got all the "not found" messages. You tried to run it as if it were a script rather than a configuration file. You can ignore all that output due to that.

Second: You did run it the second time and it says it did send. However since I don't know what you were trying to send I can't comment on it.

Third: You're doing things the hard way. If you use something like mail or mailx to send the mail you should then be able to examile /var/log/maillog to see what happened. You can also examine /var/spool/mqueue to see if you're message is still there.