sendmail questions about deferred messages

[Paul Howarth]

Ambrogio wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 05/06/2006 alle 14.31 +0100, Paul Howarth ha scritto:
> 
>>> maillog and procmail log are attached as zip file
>> I don't see any retries happening in the mail log; mail is taking up to 
>> 5 minutes to be delivered in some cases but it all seems to be getting 
>> through at the first attempt. I don't see anything unusual in the 
>> procmail log either. If you're having DNS issues then I agree that it 
>> would be a good idea to set up and use a caching nameserver on your own 
>> system.
> It seems that bind on fedora is already able to forward queries and
> cache replies.
> 
> Do you know about problems without modifying defaults?

The defaults should be fine if you don't have your own domain(s) to 
serve (install the bind-config package).

You need to make sure that /etc/resolv.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1" 
so that your own server gets used though.

Paul.