Sendmail Problems

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Oct 14 15:59:11 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:46, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> > What is the exact line you have used in your sendmail.mc to define the
> > smart host?
> 
>    define(`SMART_HOST',`83.104.103.142')
> 
> or
> 
>    define(`SMART_HOST',`barumtrading.co.uk')

Try

define(`SMART_HOST',`[barumtrading.co.uk]')

and see if that helps.

> Just for what its worth:
> 
>    [root at mailgate mail]# nslookup
>    > barumtrading.co.uk
>    Server:      127.0.0.1
>    Address:     127.0.0.1#53
>    
>    Name:        barumtrading.co.uk
>    Address:     83.104.103.142

Sometimes mail gets stuck in sendmail's queue with host lookup problems
if there is a lame delegation for the recipient's domain. Is all of your
outgoing mail stuck, or just some of it?

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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