Better ~not~ to use DM, especially if you set the sender-domain in your
mailer to a totally different account - you might get antirelay bounces.
The mantra online problem is due to dynamic dns - sendmail ~has~ to do a
manual lookup of the smtp server before sending mail through it.
'Doze users / users of mail clients like netscape which connect directly to
the mantraonline smtp server instead of having the local sendmail use
mantraonline as a smart relay host won't face this problem.
I know an admin at Mantraonline, I'll enquire from him if there's any fix
for this. [IMHO the best fix is to use vsnl's dns instead of mantraonline's
dns]
Suresh Ramasubramanian | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kedar Patankar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] sendmail host name lookup failure
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you "masqurading" in your sendmail? What does the DM macro in
> sendmail.cf say (look for ^DM in sendmail.cf)?? This relates to mails that
> you send locally, directly to sendmail's output queue (w/o going to smtp
> port on localhost).
> For mails that you send to localhost/smtp port, how is your mail
> client configured? In particular what is the "user domain" in pine (or
> whatever the corrosponding config in your mail client) set to??
> And yes, can you nslookup del1.mantraonline.com while you are
> online?
> I guess the mantraonline guys must have changed some DNS related
> config on their side, which has resulted in broken sendmail on your side.
> That is not a surprise, as I have seen several isp's with broken dns
> setups, broken reverse lookups and so on.
>
> Regards,
> Kedar.
>
>
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