Comments below --
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Binand Raj S. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] sendmail.cf problem
>
> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. forced the electrons to say:
> > sendmail.cw does not have dnl before Allow_unresolvable_domain
>
> That is accept_unresolvable_domains, isn't it?
>
[[SureshR]] Yes. And it is necessary on a dialup (or anything else
which does not have 24*7 DNS). keep it commented out if you are running a
production mailserver.
> 1. Are the mails getting delivered at all? Send a test mail to, say,
> one of the free email services on the net, and check out if the mail
> actually reaches there. Are you getting bounce messages (mails from
>
[[SureshR]] Likely it is not being delivered at all. As he says,
mqueue is empty when he sends the mail while offline.
> You are on an RHL system. Did you run linuxconf in between? I think
> linuxconf runs m4 /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
> when you say activate the changes. I am not sure, though.
>
[[SureshR]] Better to "preview the changes" before activating them.
The new linuxconf is great btw (install it off the April PCQ CD)
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