From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 3 17:31:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06754 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06741 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-15.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.15]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA07454 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:31:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA69925 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:31:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902040131.TAA69925@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-stable, sendmail 8.9.2, and exmh-2.0.2 From: David Kelly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:31:24 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the past several years I've used exmh-2.0.2, usually offline. It reads my mail out of the local mail spool /var/mail/dkelly, pushes it thru slocal, and into ~/Mail/ according to my .maildelivery rules. Was running 3.0-current from November 8 until this weekend when I refreshed things with a "make world" of the latest RELENG_3. This brought in Sendmail 8.9.2, and my problem. Now, unless I am dialed into the net and have a connection with my ISP's nameserver, exmh can not send mail to my own local Sendmail. The error is #451. Had that problem before and simply chopped those lines out of /etc/sendmail.cf and "cured" the problem. That doesn't work now. Commenting out the rule which generates 451 messages results in a "553 Domain name required". And so on until I ran out of rules to comment out. Have manually added a DS to my sendmail.cf: # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSmail.hiwaay.net /usr/bin/mail works fine, online and off. Am thinking if named were running then sendmail and/or mh can find what they are missing and things would work again. For full time connections simply running /etc/namedb/make-localhost and enabling named in rc.conf and listing 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf is all it takes. When I attempt that on my dialup system, pppd spends about 90 seconds (a nameserver lookup timeout?) before dialing. One other thing, with dynamic IP addresses I've always been a little at loss as to what FQDN to assign my system. HiWAAY.net provides nospam.hiwaay.net in their DNS as 127.0.0.1. So that sounded like a good thing to use. Any better ideas? Or is this part of my problem? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message