From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 2:18:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C5F37B43C for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 02:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wintermage@home.com) Received: from sean ([65.11.84.4]) by femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010530091838.BTCZ20096.femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com@sean>; Wed, 30 May 2001 02:18:38 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c0e8e9$0035e550$0201a8c0@sean> From: "Sean Knox" To: "Lanny Baron" , "Bill Moran" Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" , References: <3B14F2B1.19722.2D8B0A9@localhost> <3B14858A.A63BF391@iowna.com> <01053003334505.20931@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 02:14:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wasn't realizing that after typing "sendmail -v user@domain.net" you were supposed to enter the message ala the mail command. I have a file called /etc/mail/local-hosts containing: .mydomain.net mydomain.net 1) Should this file be renamed to /etc/mail/local-host-names? 2) are the contents correct? I don't have my domain name in /etc/mail/relay-domains ... should I? - Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lanny Baron" To: "Sean Knox" ; "Bill Moran" Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" ; Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:33 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users > I suppose you have checked /etc/mail/local-host-names and put in the IP's for > which you expect the system to get mail for and also in > /etc/mai/relay-domains the same thing. gethostbyaddress is telling you "hey, > i don't know such a place" > > --Lanny > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 01:36, Sean Knox wrote: > > How long should I wait? I let it sit there for about 6-7 minutes and it was > > still hung. > > > > When I do this, the sendmail log shows the following: > > > > May 29 22:35:04 freebsd-1 sendmail[928]: gethostbyaddr(10.10.209.143) > > failed: 1 > > > > and nothing more. I have other users still continuing to send email via > > sendmail however; those messages continue to appear while waiting for > > 'sendmail -v username@domain.net' to do something. > > > > Sean > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bill Moran" > > To: "Sean Knox" > > Cc: "Lim Seng Chor" ; > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:30 PM > > Subject: Re: Sendmail: problems with virtual users > > > > > Sean Knox wrote: > > > > Sendmail just hangs there when I do a sendmail -v username@domain.net > > > > ... > > > > > It's probably not hung. Wait until the timeouts expire and see what it > > > complains about. > > > > > > -- > > > If a bird in the hand > > > is worth two in the bush, > > > then what can I get for > > > two hands in the bush? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= > Lanny Baron > FreeBSD Systems, Inc. > Freedom Technologies Corp. > 1.877.963.1900 > http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message