From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 23:58:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E398437B404 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7591443FD7 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h3A6wIHF072127 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:58:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h3A6wI5Q072126 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:58:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:58:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030410065818.GA71936@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:58:26 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:32:00AM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote >=20 > >What's your sendmail-related rc.conf part like? > > > > % grep -i sendmail /etc/rc.conf > > > sendmail_enable=3D"YES" >=20 > I waited a L O N G time during boot and eventually this sequence occurred: >=20 > Starting standard daemons: inetd cron printer sshd usbd sendmail=20 > sendmail-clientmqueue. >=20 > The boot then continued normally to the login prompt. That's a classic symptom of DNS problems. Your sendmail installation is probably perfectly good in itself, but sendmail is blocking trying to resolve the FQDN of the host via the DNS, and it's the DNS that you need to concentrate on fixing. Note: it's got to be able to use the DNS to do those lookups, or it won't be much use for the rest of the internet to communicate with. There should be more information about exactly what lookups are failing in /var/log/maillog. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+lRYKdtESqEQa7a0RAhw9AJ9snGNnCok4ZoqP/N18inEh5ETKVACeMyDF 1ZM640J3EbbXJ6ND4V+xwdY= =DVIz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--