According to David Erdman: While burning my CPU.
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> hi. I am at the end of my rope trying to configure my system email. I =
> have looked at man page after man page, but cannot figure out what is =
> going on.
> I have RH5.2, KDE 1.1 with 2.2.5 kernel. my computer is not networked =
> (or at least I haven't got that far yet). I can receive mail ok =
> (fetchmail). I get all messages, but when I send i get some mail =
> relaying error, or host not found (nameserver). I have tried sending =
> through sendmail...no go. and tried through smtp....no go.=20
The most logical explanation i can think of is a pit fall which most folks
fall into when trying to send mail.
When you install programs of this nature they are standardly configured for
a system which is "online 24 hours a day", now i would imagen you are not
of that catagory, you possably use PPP to connect to you ISP once or twice
a day. You will also have sendmail constantly running as a process and are
starting it in the normal way, 'sendmail -bd -q15m'.
Now what does that all have to do with your problem?.
You are not connected to your ISP but you try to send mail, sendmail wants to
do a DNS lookup but you DONT have any routes to your ISP so sendmail returns
the mail to you as unknown host.
Dont start sendmail untill you are connected to your ISP.
Of course your problem might be of another origin, but the above is the most
common problem.
On another note, would you please stop sending attachments in HTML format.
> any comments would be appreciated
>
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Regards Richard.
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