Here's the setup. I have about a dozen Tru64 4.0F systems. We do not use DNS
on these systems. I want them to be able to send mail to our site mail
server.
On most of them, I've been successful by configuring mail as a server, and
forward nonlocal mail to our site server called, for the sake of argument,
bigmail. bigmail is appropriately defined in each system's hosts file and I
can ping it and connect to it manually.
I do get one error when sending with mailx -v:
WARNING: local host name (k5rqidb1) is not qualified; fix $j in
config file
but then it proceeds to send the mail anyway:
bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com... Connecting to bigmail via smtp...
On two of these systems, sending mail fails:
WARNING: local host name (K5MHSAP3) is not qualified; fix $j in
config file
bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com... Deferred: Error -1
the mail.log file collects messages like:
Apr 3 09:56:47 K5MHSAP3 sendmail[24037]: JAA0000005861:
to=bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com, ctladdr=bluejay (226/0), delay=00:25:28,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, relay=bigmail, stat=Deferred: Error -1
I've compared sendmail.cf files between systems that work and systems that
don't, and the only difference is the hostname.
Any ideas on where to look next? Is there a sendmail expert in the house?
Thanks in advance.
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Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com
Fuji Photo Film, Inc. +1 864 223 2888 x1369
Greenwood, SC, USA
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"A human being should be all human. He should have habits and
possessions peculiarly his own, he should not try to look like
or behave like anybody but himself, and he should not be half
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- Larry Niven
"The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton"
Received on Tue Apr 03 2001 - 14:05:07 NZST