An interesting thing to this is that the value sendmail_localhost always
contained the value localhost and I did not have sendmail expensive set.
With this setup, sendmail queued all email if "localhost" was mentioned in
the smtp services part of a email program like pine. When I added
mperry.basin.com to sendmail_localhost all email goes out immediately like
I want when Im connected. I never did this before with suse 6 or earlier
versions.
Anyways, thanks Philip and Lenz for the advice. The corrections to
sendmail_localhost worked; but Im darned if I know why.
Michael Perry
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On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Philip Stokes wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Michael Perry wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems that sendmail either works flawlessly or it starts exhibiting
> > bizarro behavior here. I have a real basic setup which is a dialup
> > connection via a modem with only one system. My /etc/hosts file is:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 207.167.85.183 mperry.basin.com mperry
> >
> > My resolv.conf is
> >
> > domain znet.com
> > nameserver 207.167.67.1
> > nameserver 207.167.80.19
> >
> > Thats it. Now when I attempt to use localhost smtp, sendmail queues
> > every last piece of email I sent with host name deferred lookup and I
> > have to force a send with sendmail -q. I have the default sendmail
> > installed and working with the switch -bd -q30m -om. If I remove the
> > word "localhost" from pine and use no default value and remove it from
> > tkrat, all email goes out immediately.
>
> I assume you told sendmail to queue outgoing mail
> (SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE=yes) in YaST?
>
> Just use "-bd -om" as the sendmail args and flush the queue with
> "sendmail -q" from your ip-up script or wherever when you go online.
>
> You should also have the line "Cw localhost" in your /etc/sendmail.cf
> file (SENDMAIL_LOCALHOST=localhost in YaST should set this).
>
> That should fix it, although I'm not sure which version of sendmail is
> shipped with SuSE now, since I maintain mine separately to the
> distribution.
>
> >From 8.9.0, sendmail needs an /etc/service.switch file to control DNS
> lookups, and decide which mail to queue and which to process directly.
>
> Mine looks like this
>
> # /etc/service.switch
> aliases files
> hosts files dns
>
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