/etc/resolv.conf and sendmail

[Philippe]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 20:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb Philippe um 12:07:
Hi Alexander.
> 
> I remember we had that topic already a couple of days ago. Still the
> same problem?

Yes, but I am quite sure that this happen only after the first boot. In
clear, my mails will be queued until I flush the queue (using webmin),
and then, everything will be fine, no mail queued anymore, until the
next boot.
> 
> Given that you did not change the basic setup of Sendmail on Fedora,
> Sendmail will only queue the mail for outgoing if it can't find a way
> out or if the remote server gives back a temporary error message (DSN
> 4xx). By default the queue runner will try every 60 minutes to empty the
> queue by delivering it's content to the targets. So if your mail is
> stuck inside the queue for a longer period you have a serious setup
> problem. Again, given that you did not fundamentally change the setup of
> Sendmail, your DNS is broken or you have a strange firewalling.
No specific firewall, no specific configuration.
I don't touch this kind of stuff ;-)

> To check what's going on the first look has to go into the
> /var/log/maillog. It may be helpful to increase the log level to a
> higher level by putting
> 
> define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `15')dnl
Did it via webmin. I will try to look the sendmail start trace at the first boot.

> into the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. You will need to restart Sendmail
> to activate that setting. Afterwards you will see very verbose messages
> about what is happening. If you don't understand yourself what's going
> on you could place the relevant maillog part on a webspace and mail me
> the address (.htaccess restricted). Along with the output of
> mailq -v
OK Thanks,
> Do you
> run Fedora Core 1 or Core 2 where Sendmail works?
RH9. I jumped directly to FC2.
>  Do you use a smart
> host or does your Sendmail is speaking directly to the target MX hosts?
I don't really know what you mean ... keep in mind that this is the
basic configuration of FC2. I don't think I have any "smart host" ;-)

Thanks a lot again to try to solve this with me.

Sorry to be late to answer, but I had a lot of work those last days and
for the next 2 days. I will maybe be late to check and give more
information.

Regards,

Philippe
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Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand