James Gibbon, On Friday July 25, 2003 11:45, James Gibbon wrote: > Brian Ashe wrote: > > That looks like a DNS issue to me. See if this helps... > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/host_map__lookup_(domain)__deferred.html > > Thanks Brian, that was my initial thought too - but I've encountered > no DNS difficulties in accessing webpages, fetchmail works first > time, and the queue flushes manually without difficulty, as the fact > that you're reading this mail will attest :) > > However, after a look at the webpage you kindly referred me to, I > did the following to see some DNS debug info (transcribed below) > after composing and sending a mail. It seems that the AAAA lookup > fails for some reason, but the A lookup works every time - might > this be a reason that the outgoing mail is deferred, having to > be flushed 'by hand' ?
It should not matter that the IPv6 fails. As long as the IPv4 one works. It only needs one of them to work. As a quick check I see that mail.virgin.net does not have a reverse lookup. So... You can try to add "FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) dnl" to your sendmail.mc and create a new sendmail.cf and see if that works. Especially if you don't have this problem with other domains. But only use this to test if the problem goes away. This is not a recommended way of running because it is designed to help alleviate spam. Of course, if you must, you _can_ leave it on, but it would be preferred that you contact the admin of the domain (unless it is you) to get DNS properly configured. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
