From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 12:30:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFD237B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED8843FA3 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b196.otenet.gr [212.205.244.204]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3AJUD72000783 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:30:14 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3AAil9f021253 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:44:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3AAilxm021252; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:44:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:44:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brian Astill Message-ID: <20030410104446.GA21122@gothmog.gr> References: <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> <20030410112000.I5505@gothmog> <3E95404A.3020003@adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E95404A.3020003@adam.com.au> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:30:34 -0000 On 2003-04-10 19:28, Brian Astill wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote > >Hmmm, this is usually an indication of DNS problems. > > Can only agree - but where is my error ? Obviously, I can't really know exactly what it is without more details about your network and DNS setup. > Apr 10 16:44:52 BAPhD sm-mta[114]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 > Apr 10 16:47:32 BAPhD sm-msp-queue[120]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queueing@00:30:00 > (the system used pid 113 and 119 when I ran top this morning) Looks fine. The pids are not really important as long as it doesn't fail to start at all. > sendmail -bt -d0.13 < /dev/null > ... > a.k.a.: localhost.my.domain You should probably edit /etc/hosts and change localhost.my.domain in the following lines: ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain to something that matches your local domain. I havn't tried resolving baphd.gihon.org.au but you should also make sure that it *does* resolve to an IP address correctly, and that address *does* resolve to baphd.gihon.org.au or one of its aliases too. - Giorgos