sendmail queue growing, host name lookup fails
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Nov 14 14:51:17 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:47 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:04 +0000, Eliot Stock wrote:
> > I just moved from FC2 to FC3 and I think I have my mail sendmail config
> >
> > just as it was for FC2. Sendmail receives mail for local delivery just
> > fine, but outgoing mail does not send.
> >
> > I use my ISPs SMTP server as a smart host. In sendmail.mc:
> >
> >
> > define(`SMART_HOST',`relay.plus.net')
> >
> >
> > 'mailq' shows a bunch of mail not being sent due to host name lookup
> > failures:
> >
> >
> > iACC9XnN003813* 6874 Fri Nov 12 12:14 MAILER-DAEMON
> > (Deferred: Name server: relay.plus.net: host name
> > lookup fail)
> > <accounts at realcontacts.com>
> > iACB9XVo003702 8287 Fri Nov 12 11:12 MAILER-DAEMON
> > (Deferred: Name server: relay.plus.net: host name
> > lookup fail)
It might also be worth trying:
define(`SMART_HOST',`relay:[relay.plus.net]')
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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