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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: echo blah | sendmail user@domain
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, flo wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:13:33PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:48:43PM +0200, flo wrote:
> > > Hi folks!
> > >
> > > Since FreeBSD uses Sendmail 8.12.2 when I try to do
> > > 	echo blah | sendmail user@domain.com
> > > it delay for ca. 75sec and then the mail is delivered.
> >
> > Sounds like a DNS timeout during the delivery. Since I don't know
> > anything of your network setup this is a wild guess, but do you
> > have a local DNS server which don't know the reverse of 127.0.0.1
> > maybe?
> ---end quoted text---
>
> No, it is definitely nothing DNS-related, 127.0.0.1 is reverse lookupable.

Is it forward-resolvable too? What order does your resolver look for
things? You probably need to set it to /etc/hosts folowed by DNS.

> Whan I use the -v options to sendmail
> root@stone:~# echo blah | sendmail -v flo@nigsch.com
> flo@nigsch.com... Connecting to localhost via relay...
>
> ...and then it hangs for the mentioned ca. 75sec.

The original response sounds right to me.

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