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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>
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Subject: Re: sendmail problems
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Doug Jolley wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> For some reason, just after installing Apache, outgoing mail
> to destinations outside the local domain is not being dispatched
> while local mail is being handled properly as is incoming mail.
> Non-local outgoing mail is supposed to be sent to a Smart Host
> (jupiter) via uucp.  If I send a message to doug@neptune.net
> (which would be outside the local domain), sendmail queues the
> message for future delivery.  According to both the message header
> and mailq, the reason for the deferral is:
> 
>     host map: lookup (neptune.net): deferred
> 
> Which certainly indicates to me that it doesn't know what to do
> with messages addressed to neptune.net.

To me it means the DNS lookup (host map: lookup (x)) is dying.  Can you
sucessfully resolve neptune.net from your mail server?

Did you try running `sendmail -q' and checking that the mail is sent?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major