On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:47 +0000, William John Murray wrote: > My reply seems not to have been posted, so to restate: > I have an ADSL dialup with AOL, and sendmail fails. > > > Mar 6 22:11:34 base sendmail[13523]: j26KMbkD012891: > > to=<w.murray@xxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<root@MY-HOME-DOMAIN> (0/0), > > delay=01:48:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=802987, > > relay=XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: > > XXXXXX.rl.ac.uk.: host name lookup failure > > > > > Thanks for the help. I've followed a couple of suggestions: > > *) Forget ssl, use my ISP's SMTP server. This is smtp.aol.com > The result is identical, with my work IP changed to smtp.aol.com > At least it proves ssl wasn't the problem! > > *) Try "MASQUERADE_DOMAIN" > I try many combinations, (aol.com), (ipt.aol.com), and I get one of: > dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error > or > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: smtp.aol.com: host name lookup > failure Your local nameserver seems to be unable to resolve the name "smtp.aol.com". I certainly can from here. Do you have working DNS? What do you get for: $ dig smtp.aol.com +trace (dig is in the bind-utils package) > I guess the 5.6.0 might be progress? But 'data format error' doesnt' > give many clues as to where this has been encountered. > Also, ctladdr stays fixed as root@MYDOMAIN-COM, throughout. > Should it change? Running sendmail on the command line has it > still picking up the name 'after readcf'. I tried ading by hand > Djaol.com in sendmail.cf but it didn't change anything. > > Does anyone have any more clues how I can override the name? > I suppose I could somehow change the name after dial-up, but > as this is a NAT routing point it doesn't seem to make sense internally. I wouldn't worry about anything else until you're sure DNS is functioning correctly. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
