Sherine wrote:
> By any chance any one knows why is it that with sendmail,(I'm
> configuring it)if I'm sending a mail and I send the mail to
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it is queued but if i use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (i.e. With
> a dot at the end of the address, then it goes through. What is this extra
> dot and why does it only work then?
A domain which ends in a dot is considered canonical, whilst one which
doesn't end in a dot will be resolved via DNS. I suspect that the DNS
lookup is failing for some reason.
Look for the lines:
# pass to name server to make hostname canonical
R$* < @ $* $~P > $* $: $1 < @ $[ $2 $3 $] > $4')
in sendmail.cf. If they are present, comment them out (this is
equivalent to building sendmail.cf with "FEATURE(nocanonify)").
Note that there are several other features which require DNS lookups,
including many of the anti-spam features which were added in sendmail
version 8.9.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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