[SOLVED] Zimbra and console mail does not work

[tibby]

Hi!

I have Zimbra working on a machine, witch also running as a web server.
Zimbra works fine, I can send, and receive emails.

However, when I try to send mail out from a web site, It wont work.
The same problem if I try it from console:

/usr/lib/sendmail -v my@mailaddress.com  < /etc/motd

In both cases, I can see the mail in mailq, but stucks there.

mailq
postqueue: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
D1E2363A194      609 Wed Jul 21 10:27:17  www-data
                                         MY@MAILADDRESS.COM

Sendmail also wont work.

sendmail -q
postqueue: warning: unable to look up public/qmgr: No such file or directory
postqueue: fatal: Cannot flush mail queue - mail system is down

I guess I am using a wrong sendmail ?
So what sould I use to be able to send out a mail from console? I can configure php to use the same I guess But what?
Anyone had this kind of problem before?

Thanks,
Tibby

[tibby]

UPDATE:

If i use:

/opt/zimbra/postfix-2.6.5.2z/sbin/sendmail -v MY@MAILADDRESS.COM < /etc/motd

It works fine.
Only from php side doesn't seems to work.
Php uses also sendmail to deliver messages.

[Rich Graves]

Zimbra instructs you to disable sendmail entirely. Better advice is to run it, but stop it from listening on the network. On RedHat, set DAEMON=no in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail. On others, do whatever is needed to eliminate the -bd argument.

Your backlog of unsent mail is in /var/spool/clientqueue. If you can't figure out an upgrades-safe way to run sendmail without -bd, another way to clear that queue would be to run /usr/sbin/sendmail -Ac -q every few minutes out of cron.