Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:59:28 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: flo <flo@nigsch.com> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: echo blah | sendmail user@domain Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204071557430.19282-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020407142535.A74792@nigsch.com>
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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. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk The Java disclaimer: values of 'anywhere' may vary between regions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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