Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 issues (the sendmail in FreeBSD 2.1.5.) Message-ID: <199608161316.JAA00514@lakes.water.net>
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Well - I've completed the upgrade of my mail server to 2.1.5. What did I discover? There's no way to tell sendmail to not use DNS (it will be fixed in a "future" version.) So, after setting up DNS, I found out it still didn't work the way I expected. I wanted items whose name was not resolved to go to the smart-host; but apparently, no matter what you do; in 8.7.5, (rule 3?) if it can't find the name it queues it for later... So, even though my name server doesn't know about "test@foo.bar", after the timeout, sendmail simply dropped the mail in the mailq. The only option is to recompile sendmail with the option: -DNAMED_BIND=0 to disable using DNS... (If you see this mail; then I was successfull in setting this up...) Just an F.Y.I - perhaps it should go somewhere in the handbook until a newer version of sendmail is put into FreeBSD... - Dave Rivers -
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