There have been several suggestions on this problem (original message
below):
Thomas Taylor suggested putting a fully-qualified name of the mail server in
the hosts file. This did not affect the problem, and anyway, none of the
systems that do work have qualified host names.
Thomas M. Payerle suggested that perhaps the load on the machine was high
enough to cause sendmail to defer. The load runs about 1.4, which I would
like to think wouldn't cause sendmail to back off.
Dr. Thomas Blinn opined that the problem might be with the bigmail server. I
was able to telnet to port 25 on bigmail and manually send a message, so
this would seem to be ruled out.
Ivan Hoe Jack suggested that the problem might be the lack of DNS. All of
the servers where mail DOES work are also running without DNS, so that would
seem to be ruled out.
I appreciate all the input so far, but I'm still looking for ideas...
- Bluejay Adametz
"It is belief and desire that determine all things."
- Thea Alexander, in "2150 A.D."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adametz, Bluejay [mailto:bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 09:58
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: mail - Deferred: Error -1
>
>
> 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.
> ---
> Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com
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> or behave like anybody but himself, and he should not be half
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>
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