Mail stopped working

Hi:

Recently, I was able to receive/send mail, and now I'm not able to for some reason. I went to my server (I use qmail), and did:



and now, it doesn't connect to my mail server at all. Can anyone tell me what happened? My mail server is "mail.coopercentral.org". Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!!!

What I did was, I went to qmailrocks.org, which is where I installed qmail from, and I did the qmr_inst_check script, which told whether or not the installation was complete. Somehow the /var/qmail/bin/sendmail wasn't in the /usr/bin/sendmail and also in /usr/sbin/sendmail, so I just copied it to both folders, then it said it was complete. I then did qmailctl stop, then start. Then, I did telnet localhost 110, and that worked. Then did localhost 25, and that worked. As of now, I can send mail, but can't receieve mail. If I use my hotmail account to send mail, then it says it won't work. Is there anything I can do to be able to receieve mail again? Is there any checks? Just for yourselfs to check, here's my info:

Domain: coopercentral.org
POP/SMTP server: mail.coopercentral.org
Email: Kenny@coopercentral.org

Again, I'd appreciate any info!!

any ideas? It still doesn't work. I use qmail. Will send, but not receieve. If you want, you can try to telnet it, and see what it says. To do it, do:

telnet mail.coopercentral.org 110

and

telnet mail.coopercentral.org 25

Thanks!

try qmailctl stat and see what you get.

Also, did you re-boot? or stop or start any other daemons?

Also, are you on FC 1, 2 or 3 ? did you fiddle with xinetd?

It sounds like you have another program catching your mail...If I were to guess I'd say that Postfix is scooping up your mail and it is sitting in the queue.

If you have webmin installed, check POSTFIX ... let us know.

I didn't telnet, no reason, you can send mail, so you are having other issues...

On the qmailrocks.org site, I looked at the page again:

http://www.qmailrocks.org/start_qmail.htm

and you're supposed to do qmailctl stop, then qmailctl start. Then, do qmailctl stat, and it looked exactly like it did on the site. I don't know what you mean by FC 1, 2, or 3. I didn't fiddle with the xinetd. I also don't have webmin.

This is the one thing. Like I said, when I went to the qmr_inst_check script, and ran it, it said that I needed to do this command:

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/bin/sendmail

and

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

It looks like I'm copying the sendmail to the /usr folder, which is where sendmail normally is on. So it sounds like sendmail is running in the background. Could this be it? THanks!!

You are using the sendmail protocols. Since sendmail in entwined in the distro it is easier to use some sendmail functions in the background.

What distro are you using? Red hat, Fedora, Mandrake.... and what version, 7,8, .... this tells me things that maybe running in the background.