greg scott wrote:
> trying to send mail (Post tag in acme mail) results in
> this /sys/log/smtp.fail entry
> dns: dns failure (net!smtp.comcast.net)
I don't have a solution, just a workaround. I don't even understand
why it is happening.
I had the same problem whenever I had to fall back on using my ISP's
smtp server. I got "around" this problem by adding a bit of guff in
front of the upas/smtp ... line in /mail/lib/remotemail that does the
posting. If you are always using smtp.comcast.net, then add this:
echo smtp.comcast.net |ndb/dnsquery >/dev/null
I also changed my remotemail to attempt direct delivery before falling
back to the ISP smtp server:
#!/bin/rc
shift
sender=$1
shift
addr=$1
shift
fd=`{/bin/upas/aliasmail -f $sender}
switch($fd){
case *.*
;
case *
fd=tombob.com
}
today=`{date}
if (upas/smtp -h $fd $addr $sender $*) {
exit 0
}
echo $today : upas/smtp -h $fd tcp!smtp.blueyonder.co.uk $sender $*
>>/sys/log/remotemail
echo smtp.blueyonder.co.uk |ndb/dnsquery >>/sys/log/remotemail
exec upas/smtp -h $fd tcp!smtp.blueyonder.co.uk $sender $*
Robby
