Dear All,

A thanks to all those whom have contributed to qmail - I've used it on
lots of servers for 9 months with very few issues, and am very happy
with it.

I am having a few problems which I believe are not qmail issues - but I
need more info before I contact other admins.

I have a qmail setup on a pentium 90 (16 meg ram) that manages a few (2
real domains - with about 10 low trafic aliases) domains with vpopmail. 
Trafic is very low!

I find repeated entries:

Jun 15 10:21:15 mailgate qmail: 961064475.400874 delivery 17215:
deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/

I get arround 200 messages a week - that appear to be arround 10
messages to the same domain - in this case smartaxis.co.uk - here is a
part of header:

> >Received: from mailgate.pipistrel.com ([193.195.219.40] verified)
> >  by smartaxis.co.uk (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4)
> >  with SMTP id 338741 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 16 Jun 2000
> 16:30:36 +0100
> >Received: (qmail 10115 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2000 11:34:19 -0000
> >Received: from pc27.pipistrel.com (HELO pipistrel.com) (192.168.1.27)
> >  by mailgate.pipistrel.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2000 11:34:19 -0000

I.e the messages are defered for arround 6 hours (which I know is qmail
expected behavour ..)

What excactly does the:

deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/

Mean - is I have have the MX record but cannot resolve the name to an IP
? or I cannot get the MX record ? or I have an IP but cannot get through
to the box ?

It all sounds to me a DNS issue - The server is also an internal DNS for
the 20 or so PC's in the office - but this "appears" to be fine.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Greg Cope

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