Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112191209.22079U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801070142.RAA09149@jupiter.neptune.net>
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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
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