started the sendmail daemon to see if it would help. i've now found loads of 'Connection timed out with localhost.co.uk.' entries in the /tmp/mail.log file. who and what is localhost.co.uk?

btw: i now understand why donna only uses lowercase in her emails.


regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


Robert Mills wrote:
> environment: sendmail 8.13.1 on mpeix 6.5
> 
> note: host, domain and exchange_server names have been replaced with
> <my_something_else>. 
> 
> i'm using the command 'sendmail -t < filename' to send a test message
> to my internal email account (msexchange). one problem is that it is
> locking up the session and the only way out is to do a break and
> abort. any ideas as to the reason?   
> 
> i also have a question about the entries logged to the /tmp/mail.log
> file. i've added a 'define('SMART_HOST', '<my_exchange_server>')dnl'
> entry to generic-mpeix.mc and then generated an /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> file. isn't the relay= entry supposed to be the ipaddr/dns_name of
> <my_exchange_server>?    
> 
> an example entry from /tmp/mail.log follows:
> 
> Mar  4 13:46:22 localhost sendmail[7995478]: j24DkMYT7995478:
> from=ROBERT.SYSDEV, size=138, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200503041346.j24DkMYT7995478@<my_host>.<my_domain>,
> relay=<hpuser>.<hpaccount>@localhost   
> 
> i've added a 'define('SMART_HOST', '<my_exchange_server>')dnl' entry
> to generic-mpeix.mc and then generated an /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file.
> isn't the relay= entry supposed to be the ipaddr/dns_name  
> 
> regards,
> 
> Robert W.Mills
> Systems Development Manager
> Windsong Services
> (020) 8309 3604

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