Mathew Chandy writes: 

> Whenever we send a external mail we get the following message in /var/log/maillog 
> 
> Jun 28 15:36:10 mail qmail: 993722770.649384 starting delivery 558: msg 53658 to 
>remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jun 28 15:36:10 mail qmail: 993722770.649477 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> Jun 28 15:36:50 mail qmail: 993722810.758651 delivery 558: deferral: 
>CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/
> Jun 28 15:36:50 mail qmail: 993722810.758758 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Jun 28 15:38:08 mail qmail: 993722888.928096 new msg 53659 
> 
> and it doesn't send the message. 
> 

It usually means that DNS lookup fails (hence the error 
CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._). Make sure that your qmail machine has 
access to DNS or else you'll need to route external mails to other machine 
that does. 

Regards, 

Ahmad Ridha 

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