From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 17:58:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C8914EB5 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:58:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA14018; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:26:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA76152; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:26:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:26:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Kok Cc: joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu, Michael Hill , 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> References: <3793C197.E40C9D76@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3793C197.E40C9D76@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>; from Peter Kok on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:23:51AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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