Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:24:37 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuing sendmail on 4.x Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000727221848.00b2b550@mail.utexas.edu>
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I've been asked to look at a machine running FreeBSD 4.0 (now after an update, 4.1). Initially I was asked to lock down services so the only services available were sendmail and namedb. I'll admit up front that I don't have much experience with mail transfer agents (sendmail and/or qmail) but am trying to help them out. This is for a school district and this machine will be the mail server for their campuses. Here is what I get in /var/log/maillog : Jul 27 22:13:54 lxmailhost sendmail[329]: VAA00181: to=<abc@taylor.isd.tenet.edu>, delay=00:43:46, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu., stat=Deferred: Name server: 206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu.: host name lookup failure Jul 27 22:13:54 lxmailhost sendmail[329]: NAA03044: to=<cde@taylor.isd.tenet.edu>, ctladdr=<ddd@lxmailhost.taylor.isd.tenet.edu> (1001/1001), delay=08:19:23, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu., stat=Deferred: Name server: 206.77.96.8.taylor.isd.tenet.edu.: host name lookup failure The machine that is the mailserver has an IP address of 206.77.96.8, the hostname is lxmailhost.taylor.isd.tenet.edu and the domain for the entire district is taylor.isd.tenet.edu. Because of something I read somewhere, here is the /etc/hosts : 127.0.0.1 localhost.taylor.isd.tenet.edu localhost 206.77.96.8 lxmailhost.taylor.isd.tenet.edu lxmailhost I am trying to read up on sendmail.cf but I might be finished with the reading and understanding it by maybe Christmas. Any information would be extremely appreciated. Thanks, Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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