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> Am Di, den 08.03.2005 schrieb William John Murray um 22:32:
>
> > > > 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
>
> [ other content snipped ]
>
> > I THOUGHT this message meant smtp.aol.com was failing to look me up?
> > It seems to ,e DNS is OK for me, but I am no expert. I get the following
> > from dig:
>
> > Bill
>
> Please try:
>
> echo '/mx aol.com' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d8.8
>
> Does that print out the available MX records?
> Do you use "smtp.aol.com" as your relay host?
>
> Alexander
>
Thank Alexander,
I am trying to use smtp.aol.com as relay at the moment...
Here is the command OP: But I am lost as to what "address testing mode"
is doing. Is this good?
echo '/mx aol.com' | /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d8.8
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> getmxrr(aol.com, droplocalhost=0)
getmxrr(aol.com) returns 4 value(s):
mailin-01.mx.aol.com.
mailin-04.mx.aol.com.
mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
