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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Rob" <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: RE: Sendmail: "550 Relaying denied" after boot up;
	restart sendmail solves problem !?!
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One possibility is that sendmail is doing a dns query during
boot to find out what it's hostname is, this is failing because
maybe networking isn't up yet.

put your machine name and IP in /etc/hosts and try it again.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Rob
>Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:38 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Sendmail: "550 Relaying denied" after boot up;restart sendmail
>solves problem !?!
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a weird problem with my mail server.
>It's running 6-Stable as Feb. 23rd.
>
>After a boot up, sendmail refuses to deliver
>emails with a
>
> reject=550 5.7.1 [...] Relaying denied
>
>When I then simply restart sendmail manually:
>
>  /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart
>
>the problem is solved and email is correctly
>delivered without any Relay denials.
>
>
>Any idea what this can be?
>And how to get this right immediately after
>boot up?
>
>Thanks,
>Rob.
>
>
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