Sendmail problem: cannot prescan new hostname

From: <kevin_at_meso.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:02:42 -0500

Hi Managers,

Once in a great while, mail that goes to the internet
bounces back to us, with the following error from sendmail:

e.g. if recipient's address is "john_at_doe.com"
we get this message: 554 rewrite: cannot prescan new hostname:

Note that the hostname doesn't appear after this error line.

The error happens randomly--we send out email automatically
to the same list of recpients every day. I'd say this
happens once every 3 or 4 weeks, but when it does, there
are usually several instances of this.

Could it be that the DNS we use is briefly out for a time?
If so, is there any way to lengthen the time sendmail tries
to prescan the name before it gives up?

System is D. Unix 3.2.c; sendmail version 5.65 v3.2.

Thanks,

Kevin Tyle <kevin_at_meso.com>
MESO, Inc.
Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 15:05:47 NZDT

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