From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 07:20:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05926 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05890 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA13102; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:20:01 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:20 EDT Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.UUCP (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00353 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:10:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA00514 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199608161316.JAA00514@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 issues (the sendmail in FreeBSD 2.1.5.) Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well - I've completed the upgrade of my mail server to 2.1.5. What did I discover? There's no way to tell sendmail to not use DNS (it will be fixed in a "future" version.) So, after setting up DNS, I found out it still didn't work the way I expected. I wanted items whose name was not resolved to go to the smart-host; but apparently, no matter what you do; in 8.7.5, (rule 3?) if it can't find the name it queues it for later... So, even though my name server doesn't know about "test@foo.bar", after the timeout, sendmail simply dropped the mail in the mailq. The only option is to recompile sendmail with the option: -DNAMED_BIND=0 to disable using DNS... (If you see this mail; then I was successfull in setting this up...) Just an F.Y.I - perhaps it should go somewhere in the handbook until a newer version of sendmail is put into FreeBSD... - Dave Rivers -