From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 9:36:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hal.medianet.ie (hal.medianet.ie [212.17.32.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB93314C30 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie) Received: from liffey.co-operation-ireland.ie .(casserole.medianet.ie [212.17.34.53]) by hal.medianet.ie (DIESPAM/NR) with ESMTP id SAA22829 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:36:34 GMT Received: from it1 (it1 [199.107.2.129]) by liffey.co-operation-ireland.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA04608 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:32:52 GMT (envelope-from relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000126173503.00845710@199.107.2.1> X-Sender: relyod@199.107.2.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:35:03 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Doyle Subject: Help with sendmail Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need help to configure sendmail on my server not to use DNS by default. From the sendmail FAQ: >In situations where you're behind a firewall, or across a dial-up line, >there are times when you need to make sure that programs (such as >sendmail) do not use the DNS at all. >With version 8.8, you change the service switch file to omit "DNS" and >use only NIS, files, and other map types as appropriate. Here's what I've tried: However, creating a file "/etc/service.switch" (and uncommenting the service switch file in /etc/sendmail.cd so that it reads O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/service.switch and taking the other steps (HoldExpensive=True, and adding "e" to the "F=" lines for SMTP and RELAY, etc. mailer definitions) The /etc/service.switch file contains a single line with the entry hosts What (if anything) have I done wrong or left out? Since upgrading to FreeBSD 3.2 (from 2.2.7) the server rejects all local email if it cannot phone the ISP - so if the ISP is busy, no-one can even add mail to the queue - with FreeBSD 2.2.7, when the ISP was unavailable, messages were queued. - It's probably the new anti-spam rules causing the problem - but I need some way of "fixing" it. Please contact me directly with suggestions (I'm not subscribed to the list - too many messages) <>< ============================================================ ><> Michael Doyle email: relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie Network Administrator personal email: relyod@indigo.ie Co-operation Ireland http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/ Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456 ********************************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message