On 29 Jan 2009, at 07:09, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > This post is to offer a possible workaround, in case you have a > flaky link to your MTAs, like we have to endure: disable the > smarthost settings in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. This is a single line > that needs to go: > define(`confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST', `mailhost$?m.$m$.')dnl
I suspect what this means is that you have something which resolves as "mailhost.<your-domain>" which accepts mail but throws it away. Sendmail is doing exactly what it should, namely sending mail to the fallback smarthost if it can't find the MX: that fallback smarthost unfortunately has some catastrophic misconfiguration. It would be worth looking up that name and seeing what happens if you send some mail to it via telnetting to the SMTP port. So this isn't a sendmail issue I think, it's a malignant-host-on-the- network issue or a DNS misconfiguration issue perhaps. --tim _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
