sendmail: Operation timed out with

[Justin Brody]

Here's a bit from /var/log/maillog:
Mar  2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1SGr1hh004059:
to=<brody at math.umd.edu>, de
lay=3+04:47:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=8130413,
relay=math.umd.edu.,
 dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with math.umd.edu.
Mar  2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1S4wehh000450:
to=<brody at math.umd.edu>, ctladdr=<justin at aleph.none.org> (1001/1001), delay=3+16:41:59,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=10290322, relay=math.umd.edu., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:
Operation timed out with math.umd.edu.

Don't know if that says anything new.  I would wonder if it's some sort of
lookup based on "ctladdr", but I get the same error if use "-f
brody at math.umd.edu" which does show up in that field.


sendmail -q -v reports:

aleph# sendmail -q -v

Running /var/spool/mqueue/i22M7pof000364 (sequence 1 of 17)
<brody at math.umd.edu>... Connecting to math.umd.edu. via esmtp...
<brody at math.umd.edu>... Deferred: Operation timed out with math.umd.edu.

Running /var/spool/mqueue/i22KDkof000227 (sequence 2 of 17)
<jdbrody at wam.umd.edu>... Connecting to po1.wam.umd.edu. via esmtp..
<jdbrody at wam.umd.edu>... Connecting to po2.wam.umd.edu. via esmtp...
<jdbrody at wam.umd.edu>... Connecting to po0.wam.umd.edu. via esmtp...
<jdbrody at wam.umd.edu>... Deferred: Operation timed out with po0.wam.umd.edu.

etc...

I'll give a shot at changing my domain name - what should I use?  I'm a
bit too poor to actually buy one :)  Should I just change to use my ISP's
domain?

Thanks for the help!



On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:15:48PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote:
>
> > I can't send any mail though.  The first entries in my mail queue:
> > i22K75of000208 3 Tue Mar 2 15:07 <justin at aleph.none.org> (Deferred:
> > Operation timed out with math.umd.edu.)  <brody at math.umd.edu>
> > i22K6mof000198 5 Tue Mar 2 15:06 <justin at aleph.none.org> (Deferred:
> > Operation timed out with math.umd.edu.)  <brody at math.umd.edu>
>
> Hmmm... Is there any more information in /var/log/maillog?
>
> What's the result of running:
>
>     /usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v
>
> -- or at least the beginning of the SMTP dialog up to attempting to
> send the first message.
>
> I note you're using 'none.org' as a domain name -- that used to be a
> registered domain for a corporation in Korea (it's on 'client hold
> pending delete' at the moment).  Seems to have disappeared from the
> DNS though.  You'll find that sendmail works a lot better if you use
> correctly registered domain names -- although it should cope without.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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