topic sendmail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail problem

hangyu — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:14:52 GMT

In my server , we use mail.pl via the sendmail daemon for sending out mail . Now I have problem as below , the below is my testing.

1) mail.pl -f "aaa@aaa.com" myemail@domain.com
It is OK to send out mail

2) mail.pl -f "aaa@aaa" myemail@domain.com
It is NOT OK to send out mail

I don't know why the mail is not send out if no .com in the "from" address , can advise how to send out mail without .com ? thx

Re: sendmail problem

Peter Godron — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:42:22 GMT

Hi,
can you please let us know what your mail.pl program does and what the actual command line translates to after mail.pl has "converted" your input. What does mail.pl submit to the system to send the mail ?

Re: sendmail problem

Ivan Krastev — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:47:41 GMT

Check /var/adm/syslog/mail/log for errors. Possible you can resolve "aaa.com" but cannot "aaa".

regards,
ivan

Re: sendmail problem

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:46:46 GMT

Shalom,

mailq

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99

type some test

.

Full diagnostics.

Clearly the fact that mail gets out okay points to a scripting problem or DNS lookup failure.

My take on this is that aaa is not a valid domain and the mail is hanging up because the DNS lookup fails.

SEP

Re: sendmail problem

hangyu — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:14:06 GMT

thx replies,

Check /var/adm/syslog/mail/log for errors. Possible you can resolve "aaa.com" but cannot "aaa".

I think the server not resolve "aaa" , if I want the server can resolve it , what can i do ? thx