Greg, Try checking /var/spool/mqueue. I believe sendmail saves its temporary files there (if I've screwed up that location, though, someone please correct me).
Tanner On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:27, Greg Brown wrote: > > The Facts: > Red Hat 7.1 > sendmail-8.11.2-14 > connected to my cable modem (outside interface) > connected to my small networks serving 1 pc (in case RR is listening) > (inside interface). > > My outside interface appears to NOT be able to resolve it's domain name. I > think this is a RR wide thing. Is anyone running RR able to get a > resolvable DNS name on the Roadrunner interface on the RR network? If so > how? For instance, the command (issued from my linux box at work) 'dig > paloverde.nc.rr.com' does not return an ip address. Does Roadrunner just > not update DNS entries or simply not support DNS for it's DHCP connected > devices? > > My real question is this: > > Because my outside interface is not DNS resolvable some mail servers will > not accept mail send from my box, an example of this is my employer, Lucent. > Saturday, a day which I was not even in town, my mail server attempted to > send mail to my work address 6480 times!!! And it's been doing this every > stinking day. > > Upon noticing this I freaked out, then stopped sendmail. I looked in > /var/spool/mail and sure enough, there were references to lucent.com in the > three files in this directory. I deleted every file in this directory then > restarted sendmail thinking this would stop the mail from going out which > had not already been delivered. > > No luck. My machine is still attempting to mail lucent.com and the files in > /var/spool/mail are still empty. > > Any ideas on where to look to get rid of the files that is causing this? > > Here's an example of what is showing up in my maillog: > 4:03:18 paloverde sendmail[16406]: g95G0GT14652: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=16:03:02, xdelay=00:00:18, mailer=esmtp, > pri=86730161, relay=ihemail2.lucent.com. [192.11.222.163], dsn=4.0.0, > stat=Deferred: ihemail2.lucent.com.: No route to host > > Thanks!!! > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.
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