[WBEL-users] (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)

[Conor Wynne]

I shall answer my own problem:

I forgot to add the IPADDRESS of the DNS server in resolv.conf.
I had the FQDN instaed.

Now I have more problems, but at least mails are now being delivered.
After lunch I'll ask again ;-0



> Hi all,
>
> I have an issue with sendmail (sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1)
> All mails originating from the server get the following status:
>
> [root@server root]# mailq
>                 /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> iAJBJqMr031864        0 Fri Nov 19 11:19 <root@server>
>                  (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)
>
> If we "dig mydomain.ie aaaa" or "dig mydomain.ie mx" or "dig mydomain.ie
> a"
> We get the appropriate response!
>
> e.g.:
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mydomain.ie a (or mx or aaaa)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58843
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> The only entries I changed in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc were as follows:
> define(`SMART_HOST',`mailhost.otherdomain.ie')
>
> mailhost.otherdomain.ie has the mx record in mydomain.ie
>
> FYI: mailhost resolves via dnslookups.
> The two other changes were as follows:
> FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.ie')dnl
>
> In this config, all mails were waiting in /var/spool/clientmqueue
> So we added a line as follows to /etc/mail/submit.cf
> O DirectSubmissionModifiers=C
>
> This resulted in messages no longer being as dsn=4.4.3 stat=queued in
> /var/log/maillog
>
> But subsequently we now get them being queued in /var/spool/mqueue.
>
> Help me Obi-Wan.
> Regards
>
> --
> Conor Wynne,
> Dublin,
> Irlande.
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-- 
Conor Wynne,
Dublin,
Irlande.