cannot send mail. Can receive ok.

[sul]

hi,

i'm using Fedora 9 and sendmail 8.14.2

I can receive emails and can only send mail locally to other users on
the same server, but I am unable to send mail externally. after 4
hours, I get a returned message which says: Warning: message still
undelivered after 4 hours. Will keep trying until message is 5 days
old....

I have tried to send to multiple external e-mail addresses with the
same results.

how do i pinpoint the problem and resolve?

thanks!

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

0) Post log file entries
1) check what reasons for keeping the messages in sendmail queue are
reported by "mailq -v" command
2) Send test email as root in verbose mode

(echo "subject: test"; echo) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v j...@example.net

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