Mail logs broken

[honds]

I am having a major problem with qmail. It won't send to a remote server.
E-mail going to a local address is sent fine but remote mail doesn't work (I am using an authorized mail account - not a relay).

I would check my logs and post those, however... they somehow got deleted (not my fault... really! ) and qmail doesn't recreate them. So I essentially have no way of telling what is going on.

However, I do know that the mail just sits in the "remote" queue. It is never removed.

Local mail goes through fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Summary:

How can I recreate the log file so qmail starts logging again?
(step by step please... example... vi maillog... type :wq!... chown ... etc... I don't want to forget something)

Does anyone have any ideas on why the remote mail won't go through?

This is a crippling problem.

Thank you.

 

[Cranky]

You can recreate the maillog with:

touch /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

Are you sure you're looking in the right place for the logs? It's not in /var/log with the standard logfiles.

 

[honds]

Update:
OK, my mail log finally decided to start logging something... here is what I get...
To avoid spambots and such, I'm blanking out the ip address with 0.0.0.0 and the e-mail with [email protected]

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Aug 15 05:24:01 Designer qmail: 1124108641.814155 starting delivery 140: msg 249061393 to remote [email protected]
Aug 15 05:24:01 Designer qmail: 1124108641.814224 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Aug 15 05:24:02 Designer qmail: 1124108642.087475 delivery 140: deferral: Connected_to_0.0.0.0_but_connection_died._(#4.
4.2)/
Aug 15 05:24:02 Designer qmail: 1124108642.087535 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Aug 15 05:32:56 Designer qmail: 1124109176.106979 starting delivery 141: msg 249061394 to remote [email protected]
Aug 15 05:32:56 Designer qmail: 1124109176.107050 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Aug 15 05:32:56 Designer qmail: 1124109176.183132 delivery 141: deferral: Connected_to_0.0.0.0_but_connection_died._(#4.
4.2)/
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Please note: this happens with all mail hosts not just the one referenced in the log.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you Cranky for your reply.