Why are emails staying in sendmail queue?

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Issue

  • Emails are staying in queue.
  • /var/log/maillog contains following logs:
Jan 14 04:46:18 hostname sendmail[14473]: o0E4kIUB014473: from=root, size=81, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=, relay=root@localhost 
Jan 14 04:46:18 hostname sendmail[14473]: o0E4kIUB014473: to=email@hostname.com, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30081, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
  • sendmail 8.13.8-2.el5-x86_6
  • Lotus Domino

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