sendmail queue growing, host name lookup fails

[Paul Howarth]

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>