Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup) Subject: sendmail HELP! Message-ID: <199604121733.KAA09663@athena.tera.com>
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Hello people, Did my earlier mail get to this list about this host//sendmail problem? ...I thought that I saw it. At any rate, there was no response and I haven't been able to fix this myself... I've had these mail problems for most of the time that I've run FreeBSD. Incoming or outgoing mail has disappeared and not been delivered. ((Yes, I do read the mail from root, and I eventually found the missing mail in /var/spool/mqueue.)) For a brief time, few days to a week or so, the hackings to the mail setup at work did seem to fix things. But since they've installed a new, improved sendmail, my home FBSD feed has been hosed. ---It may be a combination of the sendmail/mail setup at work plus my home system, or it may be my home BSD setup entirely. I don't know, and nothing that I seem to do fixes this. The nutshell version of the problem is that all mail gets shoved into /var/spool/mqueue. Sending test mail to `kline@tao.thought.org' while logged in as `kline' suggests that sendmail is looking for `tao.thought.org' as a site somewhere out on the net; that it doesn't know that it already *is* my box. How do I tell sendmail (or rmail??) to deliver my mail to my box or mail to tao.thought.org to itself?? I have tried various mods to /etc/hosts without success. Likewise with changes to /etc/sendmail.cf. So far, no luck. If anyone has had similar snafus and fixed them, _please_ clue me in!! Below are some recent postmarks: P111542 T829325866 DdfJAA03051 Mai.mit.edu: Name server timeout $rUUCP $sai.mit.edu $_uucp@localhost Sai.mit.edu!bounce-digerati Rkline@tao.thought.org [[ ... ]] T829325867 DdfJAA03054 Mmail.eskimo.com: Name server timeout $rUUCP $smail.eskimo.com $_uucp@localhost Smail.eskimo.com!kline Rkline@tao.thought.org H?P?Return-Path: kline@mail.eskimo.com HReceived: from mail.eskimo.com (uucp@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.6.11/8. 6.9) with UUCP id JAA03054 for kline@tao.thought.org; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:17:47 -0700 [[ ... ]] P35 T829279355 DdfUAA00206 Mtao.thought.org: Name server timeout $_kline@localhost Skline Rkline@tao.thought.org H?P?Return-Path: kline HReceived: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA0020 6 for kline@tao.thought.org; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:35 -0700 H?D?Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:35 -0700 H?F?From: Gary Kline <kline> H?x?Full-Name: Gary Kline H?M?Message-Id: <199604120322.UAA00206@tao.thought.org > HTo: kline@tao.thought.org HSubject: testing, testing. Note that on my 3 prev uNix boxes I used smail2.5 and smail3.1. Hats off to Eric and all that, but sendmail almost requires its own degree, :-( Thanks for any help here, people. gary kline
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