sendmail question

Mail Monitor mailmonitor at ece.iisc.ernet.in
Mon Nov 3 01:23:03 PST 2003


Thanks for the reply, I have checked the DNS
part by resolving my hostname with the entries
listed in /etc/resolv.conf. The name servers are
working fine.

thanks.


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Q wrote:

> It might be DNS related. Have you checked the log files to see if it is
> trying to resolve a hostname or MX record for the RCPT domain?
>
> Seeya...Q
>
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:14, Mail Monitor wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running sendmail on FreeBSD 4.7 and have a
> > problem with sendmail.
> >
> > Even though the sendmail is running, the
> > mails are not coming into the server.
> >
> > I tried sending a mail from command line using
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -v abc at xxx.yyy. The output
> > of this command hangs just before DATA i.e
> > EHLO, MAIL from are supported. But i donot get
> > "Recipient ok" it takes 10 min to complete the
> > mail delivery and hangs after "RCPT To" for 10 min.
> >
> > Any clue why it happens?
> >
> > Thanks
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