RE: [LI] mail server problem sendmail 8.8.x

["Mazumder, Anik (CTS)" <Anik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you tell me which lines to comment out ? I am pretty new to sendmail

Regards,
Anik

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jiju Thomas Mathew [SMTP:digitelnet@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 05, 1999 8:59 PM
> To:	linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: [LI] mail server problem sendmail 8.8.x
> 
> >>based takes toomuch time to send messages, ie between each message heavy
> >>delay is seen.  but down loading is quite a breeze, since we are using
> >>Qpopper.
> >
> >
> >Are you maintaining a local DNS server? Or otherwise add the IP
> >addresses/host names of your win9x machines in /etc/hosts/file. This
> delay
> >might be due to reverse lookups.
> >
> 
> 
> we are having a local DNS, nslookup from the server is okay, browsing the
> web
> site on the server is also okay.  The sendmail was giving error "...we do
> not relay" till
> I remarked the spam reference line in sendmail.cf., then it started
> accepting relay mail,
> is it because send mail is configured to wait for DNS (some where in
> linuxconf I have seen it)?
> and the mail addresses were for outer domains.  The outer domains being
> resolved from
> caching DNS, and internet not available at time of receiving outbound mail
> from clients, may be :-)
> I will have to check it out, tomorrow is the day for that since it is a
> hartal in Kerala (again).
> 
> 
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