More sendmail help?

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Tue Mar 8 23:19:50 UTC 2005


Am Di, den 08.03.2005 schrieb William John Murray um 22:32:

> > >   My reply seems not to have been posted, so to restate:
> > > I have an ADSL dialup with AOL, and sendmail fails.
> > > 
> > > > Mar  6 22:11:34 base sendmail[13523]: j26KMbkD012891:
> > > > to=<w.murray at rl.ac.uk>, ctladdr=<root at MY-HOME-DOMAIN> (0/0),
> > > > delay=01:48:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=802987,
> > > > relay=XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server:
> > > > XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk.: host name lookup failure

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>     I THOUGHT this message meant smtp.aol.com was failing to look me up?
> It seems to ,e DNS is OK for me, but I am no expert. I get the following
> from dig:

>  Bill

Please try:

echo '/mx aol.com' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d8.8

Does that print out the available MX records?
Do you use "smtp.aol.com" as your relay host?

Alexander


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