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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:33:24 -0500
From:      "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:    Stop 5 day timeout on messages intended to be delivered via ETRN?
Message-ID:  <010a01c06b7c$8532f580$be32a0cd@lisa.jellico.com>

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Hi All,

I'm running Sendmail 8.9.3 on FreeBSD. I have a customer who wishes to
retrieve his E-mail via ETRN. I know this is supposed to be simple but this
has been a real pain to get it to work, I've spent a couple of very
frustrated weeks on this.

My customer has a domain: oregansinc.com. I have assigned it a static IP
from our class C.  The web server for this domain resides on a Win NT box on
our lan. MX records for this domain point to jellico.net (my FreeBSD box).

E-mail intended for oregansinc.com was bouncing immediately, with one of two
error messages: User unknown, and relaying denied (in spite of the fact that
the domain is listed in /etc/mail/relay-domains).
I have fixed this problem, Sendmail is now queueing mail intended for
oregansinc.com in the mail queue (I see it when I issue the mailq command).

Unfortunately, people sending mail to this domain are now getting a return
E-mail that states:

-----Original Message-----
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@i2000.jellico.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:05 PM
To: reganm@forscom.army.mil
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours


    **********************************************
    **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
    **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
    **********************************************

The original message was received at Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:56:49 -0500 (EST)
from fcsmthhqlb4.forscom.army.mil [160.136.40.5]

   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
<reganm@oregansinc.com>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
<reganm@oregansinc.com>... Deferred: Connection refused by oregansinc.com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old


This is NOT what I want to happen. I want the mail to be queued until my
customer chooses to retrieve it via ETRN, which may be more than 5 days.
Also I don't want everyone who sends E-mail to this domain to recieve this
message. How can I prevent this from happening with E-mail intended for this
domain but still have other messages in my mail queue handled normally (i.e.
bounced after 5 days if they remain undeliverable)??

Thanks,

Lisa Casey, Webmaster
Interstate 2000, Inc.
lisa@jellico.com
webmaster@jellico.com











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