F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

Knute Johnson linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Sun Jun 22 18:57:50 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> I've got two installations of F9 running, one x86_64 and the other i386. 
>>>>   They both fail to send email initially but if I restart sendmail they 
>>>> send fine after that.  I'm using thunderbird and have it configured to 
>>>> use the local sendmail for sending.  The only thing I've modified in my 
>>>> sendmail.mc file is the masquerading.  Any ideas where to start looking?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> knute...
>>>>
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: alias database /etc/aliases 
>>>> rebuilt by root
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, 
>>>> longest 10 bytes, 774 bytes total
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
>>>> SMTP+queueing at 01:00:00
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail 
>>>> -bd -q1h
>>>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sm-msp-queue[2121]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
>>>> queueing at 01:00:00
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: NOQUEUE: connect from 
>>>> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: AUTH: available mech=CRAM-MD5 
>>>> PLAIN ANONYMOUS DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI 
>>>> KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: Milter: no 
>>>> active filter
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 220 
>>>> localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.2/8.14.2; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 
>>>> 11:10:43 -0700
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- EHLO 
>>>> [127.0.0.1]
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
>>>> 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], 
>>>> pleased to meet you
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
>>>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-PIPELINING
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-8BITMIME
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-SIZE
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DSN
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-ETRN
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-AUTH 
>>>> DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DELIVERBY
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250 HELP
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- MAIL 
>>>> FROM:<linux at www.knutejohnson.com> SIZE=427
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>>>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 050 
>>>> <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>... Transient parse error -- message queued 
>>>> for future delivery
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>>>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>>>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>>>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 4.1.8 
>>>> Domain of sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
>>>> ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, 
>>>> relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of 
>>>> sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- QUIT
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 221 2.0.0 
>>>> localhost.localdomain closing connection
>>>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
>>>> from=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, size=427, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
>>>> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>>> ----
>>> is sendmail set to start on boot?
>> Yes.  That's why I included the log that shows the start of sendmail.
>>
>>> chkconfig --list sendmail # to review which runlevels it starts on
>>> chkconfig sendmail on # to have it start on boot
>> The log above shows it is running but;
>>
>> [root at knute knute]# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep sendmail
>> sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
>>
>>> it does appear that you've got a DNS issue too...'sender address of
>>> www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve' is a problem as I see it.
>> When the computer first starts.  After I restart sendmail it doesn't 
>> have a problem any more.  This mail was sent from one of the computers 
>> with the problem.
> ----
> I would think that sendmail starts after named starts but perhaps not.
> 
> Try setting a manual entry for www.knutejohnson.com in /etc/hosts
> 
> Craig
> 

That didn't fix it.  The mail got queued though which is another problem 
that occurs sometimes along with this.  As soon as I restart sendmail 
these queued mails are sent immediately.

[root at knute knute]# mailq
		/var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
------------Sender/Recipient-----------
m5MItEsf002625       52 Sun Jun 22 11:55 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
name look)
					 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
m5MIrQFK002822       52 Sun Jun 22 11:53 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
                  (Deferred: Name server: www.knutejohnson.com.: host 
name look)
					 <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>
		Total requests: 2

-- 
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com




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