F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

[Knute Johnson]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> 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
> 

These extra emails are problems with the mailq (I think).

-- 
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com