F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I've got two installations of F9 running, one x86_64 and the other i386. 
>   They both fail to send email initially but if I restart sendmail they 
> send fine after that.  I'm using thunderbird and have it configured to 
> use the local sendmail for sending.  The only thing I've modified in my 
> sendmail.mc file is the masquerading.  Any ideas where to start looking?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> knute...
> 
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: alias database /etc/aliases 
> rebuilt by root
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, 
> longest 10 bytes, 774 bytes total
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
> SMTP+queueing at 01:00:00
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail 
> -bd -q1h
> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sm-msp-queue[2121]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
> queueing at 01:00:00
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: NOQUEUE: connect from 
> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: AUTH: available mech=CRAM-MD5 
> PLAIN ANONYMOUS DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI 
> KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: Milter: no 
> active filter
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 220 
> localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.2/8.14.2; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 
> 11:10:43 -0700
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- EHLO 
> [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
> 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], 
> pleased to meet you
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-PIPELINING
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-8BITMIME
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-SIZE
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DSN
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-ETRN
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-AUTH 
> DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DELIVERBY
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250 HELP
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- MAIL 
> FROM:<linux at www.knutejohnson.com> SIZE=427
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 050 
> <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>... Transient parse error -- message queued 
> for future delivery
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 4.1.8 
> Domain of sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
> ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, 
> relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of 
> sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- QUIT
> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 221 2.0.0 
> localhost.localdomain closing connection
> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
> from=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, size=427, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
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is sendmail set to start on boot?

chkconfig --list sendmail # to review which runlevels it starts on
chkconfig sendmail on # to have it start on boot

it does appear that you've got a DNS issue too...'sender address of
www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve' is a problem as I see it.

Craig