Hi Aaron, There has been a patch submitted that will autodetect the OS's dns servers in many cases and use them. This should help solve this problem.
Sergei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Knauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:38 AM Subject: FAQ #1 (was Re: Bugzilla 16949) > We should try making this plainer, somehow. Sure, we can say that it is > in the docs, and that anyone administering a mail server ought to know > already, but that won't change the fact that we get this problem every > week! Obviously, the notices we have about this simpy don't do the trick. > > Initially, I thought that maybe we ought to make James fail on startup > with a big plain message written to both the log and the console when > there are no DNS servers configured. Then I realised that that might > get me fired. We actually use James with no DNS servers in order to > process inbound-only mail, with no possibility of relaying. I think it > would be good to be able to keep that deployment scenario in our bag of > tricks. > > We could, however, tone down the fail on startup to a simple warning in > the log and on the console. Does anyone have any objections? > > Cheers > > ADK > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > >My best guess is that your DNS server entry needs to be configured. > > > > --- Noel > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Pierre Grimaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 20:27 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Bugzilla 16949 > > > > > >Something must be wrong with my config then, sorry about the > >inconvenience... > > > >I'll try to look up some infos in the forums/faq > > > >Thanks! > > > >Pierre GRIMAUD > >1035 Valerian Way > >Sunnyvale, California 94086 > >408-730-1533 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >----Original Message Follows---- > >From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Bugzilla 16949 > >Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:25:01 -0500 > > > >As you can see, James sends to Hotmail just fine. > > > > --- Noel > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
