[rhn-users] sendmail question

[Clinton Fernandes]

Here's my $0.02...

What is your hostname?

I had a similar problem because my hostname was set as boo. To get sendmail to
send mail (hehe) I had to make my hostname a FQDN. eg. boo.google.com (or
whatever domain you're in).

-- 
          my tail is dun.


Quoting Eric Van Steenbergen <evs at kerridge.be>:

> Hello all,
>  
> I'm having a little trouble sending mail from one server to another. I think
> I configured everything as it should be but apparantly I'm missing
> something. When I send mail using the following command: 
>  
> sendmail evs at kerridge.com
> text
> .
>  
> the mail gets send as it seems (is in mailq) but with the error 
> j4C75VIB017588       29      30328 May 12 09:05 <root at localhost.localdomain>
>                  (Deferred: Name server: kerridge.com.: host name lookup
> failure)
>                                                 <evs at kerridge.com>
>  
> What am I missing? The destination server is reachable (ping and telnet
> tested). kerridge.com is in the hosts file, 
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> Eric Van Steenbergen
>  
>  
>