More sendmail help?
William John Murray
w.murray at rl.ac.uk
Tue Mar 8 07:47:07 UTC 2005
My reply seems not to have been posted, so to restate:
I have an ADSL dialup with AOL, and sendmail fails.
> Mar 6 22:11:34 base sendmail[13523]: j26KMbkD012891:
> to=<w.murray at rl.ac.uk>, ctladdr=<root at MY-HOME-DOMAIN> (0/0),
> delay=01:48:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=802987,
> relay=XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
> XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk.: host name lookup failure
>
>
Thanks for the help. I've followed a couple of suggestions:
*) Forget ssl, use my ISP's SMTP server. This is smtp.aol.com
The result is identical, with my work IP changed to smtp.aol.com
At least it proves ssl wasn't the problem!
*) Try "MASQUERADE_DOMAIN"
I try many combinations, (aol.com), (ipt.aol.com), and I get one of:
dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
or
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: smtp.aol.com: host name lookup
failure
I guess the 5.6.0 might be progress? But 'data format error' doesnt'
give many clues as to where this has been encountered.
Also, ctladdr stays fixed as root at MYDOMAIN-COM, throughout.
Should it change? Running sendmail on the command line has it
still picking up the name 'after readcf'. I tried ading by hand
Djaol.com in sendmail.cf but it didn't change anything.
Does anyone have any more clues how I can override the name?
I suppose I could somehow change the name after dial-up, but
as this is a NAT routing point it doesn't seem to make sense internally.
Bill
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