Re: [LI] Sendmail Query ! No Not about relays :-)

[Babu Kalakrishnan <kalakrishnan@xxxxxxxx>]

Khader,

>Mysteriously, this has been happening after I upgraded sendmail. Earlier
>version was working fine. ;-(

>The headers don't give out much  !!
>THe only thing they give out is mailer= local, stat = Deferred ;-(

Send a test mail to avenger. See what the command "mailq" reports. It
should give some reason in front of the word " :deferred". 

If you can't find anything there, check out the file qfXXXXXXX in the 
/var/spool/mqueue directory. (XXXXXXX will be some alphanumeric junk). The
file contains the full headers of the mail plus some additional info. Lines
starting with "H" are the actual headers, whereas the other stuff before
that contain the envelope info & sendmail's status info. That stuff should
give you info as to why the mail was deferred.

Also which mailer are you using ? As far as I've seen, different mailers
use different rules to decide what they put in the envelope-headers and 
the body headers. And sendmail as I said before is very particular that 
it can resolve both the sender domain _and_ the recipient domain before it 
sends out the mail. (Unless you setup the rules asking it to accept mail
from unresolvable domains too.. Do I hear someone growling ??? ;-) )

Regards,

Kala

P.S. In case you can't still resolve this, mail me (not the list) a copy of
your sendmail.cf and the qfXXXXXXX file for the test message..



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