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Email Not Working After Downtime

Posted on March 6, 2014

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 …

Thanks. <br> <br>Which server and which logs?

Make sure sendmail is running: <pre>sudo netstat -plutn | grep mail <br>sudo ps wwaux | grep mail</pre>

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