On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: > hi, > > well, after all the long advantures i had with this damm mandrake machine for > the past 2 days, there is only 1 last thing left : > > when sending mail (localy from the server or with a client from the local lan) > it takes about 30 sec's for the mail to "go out" and even then its being held > in the mqueue. to some recipients its being sent, and some get a timeout > error... > > in sendmail.cf : > # queue up everything before forking? > # O SuperSafe=True > > in some cases i get an error that says "hostname lookup faild - domain.com" > (when domain.com is the name of my mail server.
Maybe you need to setup the MX record of domain.com as well? > there WAS a problem with my resolve.conf, but even after it was fixed, > i still get the same errors.. How do you resolve names? Do you have a local DNS server? > > telneting to port 25 gives : > > $ telnet domain.com 25 > Trying 1.2.3.4... > Connected to domain.com (1.2.3.4.) > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.1/8.12.1; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:53:43 +0200 > helo [EMAIL PROTECTED] helo domain.com > 501 5.0.0 Invalid domain name > > WHY ?!?! Also, at that point the server will do a reverse DNS lookup on your IP. If I look at the headers of your message: Received: from unknown (HELO you-domman.com) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by iglu.org.il with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 01:43:44 -0000 A reverse DNS lookup failed, and hence the "unknown". You don't expect the mail server to rely on the name supplied by the client, do you? > > 1) why are messages being sent to the queue and not sent directly ? because then need to pass some processing. If all is well, it all takes a number of seconds (or even less). > 2) why does it take so long for a client to connect and send mail out ? Reverse DNS Lookup? > > in /etc/hosts everything is ok, Does it have all the IPs in the local network? Or do you use DHCP? in that case: either make the dhcp server update your hosts file (is it possible?) or have it update your name server. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
