On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which > checks to make sure the domain exists. Today, my DNS servers listed > in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced > and lost. I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail > that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable > domain or not. How can I set this up?
You can tell sendmail not to try to resolve domains. just put this into your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl and run sendmailconfig. Works for me... Nils