Re: Sendmail relay configuration - RHEL 3.0

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:01:34AM +0200, IECISA.Ortega Gonzalez, Carlos wrote:
> The problem still is that the mails don't leave the local machine. The
> /var/log/maillog shows messages like the following:
> 

[snip]

> iberia.es: Name server timeout

sendmail without DNS is going to give you grief forever.  It's simply
never going to be happy until you've got your DNS issues resolved.
Forget about sendmail for a while and focus on getting your resolver
working properly.  Once that's done, you may find that sendmail suddenly
starts working.

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