Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:26:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Cc: joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu, Michael Hill <msh@qadas.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail config (was: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990720102657.T72885@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3793C197.E40C9D76@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>; from Peter Kok on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:23:51AM %2B0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191654280.1235-100000@njal.ualr.edu> <3793C197.E40C9D76@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
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On Tuesday, 20 July 1999 at 8:23:51 +0800, Peter Kok wrote: > > > joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu wrote: > >> I had the same problem and corrected by adding the following to my >> /etc/sendmail.cf file: >> >> Djteam7.cba.ualr.edu >> > > Could you explain it in detail? What is Dj of > Djteam7.cba.ualr.edu stand for? D means "define". j is the domain name. As I mentioned in an earlier message, this doesn't help much unless you know what you're doing. > I also encountered this problem? You did! > Whatever i sent mail to some customers, i received the following > warning message ' Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours': > My ISP always tells me that this is receipient server problem and > DNS couldn't look up this time. How can i prove that he was wrong? Read the message more carefully. There are plenty of reasons for this message. The most common is that the recipient's servers are not accessible for this time, so your ISP is probably right. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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