topic Re: sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail

Saleelah Shabbar — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:42:28 GMT

Have configured sendmail on an L class, hpux 11.0.
The error message I am getting when I do a
sendmail -v user is

barclays.co.uk: Name server timeout
saleelah.shabbar@barclays.co.uk... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery.
Any ideas.
Sal

Re: sendmail

john korterman — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:12:29 GMT

Hi,

I guess that the file /etc/nsswitch.conf specifyes that the order of resolving hostnames is dns before files, i.e. look first in dns, then in /etc/hosts - and your mailserver is not in dns.
Is that correct?

regards,
John K.

Re: sendmail

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:23:22 GMT

Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf files.

resolv.conf should have entries of your domain name and Name server

nsswitch.conf should have entries for DNS and and files for the hosts entry like this:
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue] dns

-USA..

Re: sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:52:25 GMT

You have a name resolution issue.

As noted in the prior posts, you'll need to get DNS working if you want to resolve names locally.

If you have a smtp relay server in your environment, you can configure sendmail to pass the mail to that server.

in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

DS directive.

Change
DS

to
DS
[ip address of relay server]

or

DShostnameofrelayserver

save the file.

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

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