On 18/01/2004, at 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently I'm looking to see why it's trying to use /var/spool/mqueue - it looks like the system is set up to use /var/spool/mail. I'm now reading sendmail's README.cf and looking to see how to alter that. I think:
define(`QUEUE_DIR',`/var/spool/mail')
DO NOT DO THAT!!!! Lots of things will break and children will cry.
You'll be changing where sendmail puts its queue (which should be /var/spool/mqueue[-client]). /var/[spool/]mail is where the MTA puts mail which it has delivered (users mailboxes) by default. VERY different things.
The error message means that it cannot find the DNS entry for the domain. Why you can resolve it manually, I don't know.
Setting the allow unresolvable domains will NOT allow you to be used a spam relay. It may mean you get a couple of extra spam messages through to your self, but not a noticable difference.
The relay controls (access.db etc) in sendmail control the relaying of mail, allow unresolvable domains just means that you will accept mail if the domain of the user is not reverse resolvable.
Are you allowing both port 53 UDP and TCP through? Since DNS requests go out by both TCP and UDP (depending on the query size), this could be what your problem is.
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