By sidneykaichi
So yesterday my droplet went down because of some node issue. When it powered up it was not able to send any mail.
I had installed sendmail and had it working beforehand. Is this due to some service not being started up?
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As suggested on IRC, <br>[19:55:55] <+SammyTheShark> [DigitalOcean Community Questions] Email Not Working After Downtime - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/email-not-working-after-downtime <br>[19:58:38] <phalacee> ^^ reboot the server and check the logs …
Make sure sendmail is running: <pre>sudo netstat -plutn | grep mail <br>sudo ps wwaux | grep mail</pre>
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