On Jun 13, Robert D. Hilliard wrote
: I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm
: trying again. My ISP says "we do not offer support for linux mail".
: I hope someone can give me a clue. I'm getting tired of going into
... probably the wrong ISP. (But not the help you'd have expected ;-))
: bob:vc-1:bob>mailq
: m0wbSvY-000ZEXC From: bob (in /var/spool/smail/input)
: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
: Args: -t -oem -f bob -oMP sendmail
: bob:vc-1:bob>runq -v
: khilliard@autometric.com: autometric.com matched by smart_host:
: rhilliar@mc.seflin.net: mc.seflin.net matched by smart_host:
: hilliard@metrolink.net: metrolink.net matched by smart_host:
: routed hilliard@metrolink.net --> hilliard@metrolink.net at
: post.metrolink.net
: routed rhilliar@mc.seflin.net --> rhilliar@mc.seflin.net at
: post.metrolink.net
: routed khilliard@autometric.com --> khilliard@autometric.com at
: post.metrolink.net
: transport smtp uses driver tcpsmtp
: transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out
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Reads as an DNS problem. Try to turn on more debugging in smail
(-v1000 or somewhat similar, see the manpage ...). This way you should
be able to find what actually is the BIND failure. No MX (but that
should'nt hurd), no response ...
Try ``mx post.metrolink.net'' or ``host post.metrolink.net''.
Heiko
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