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Re: Fetchmail & Sendmail



On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
> When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which
> checks to make sure the domain exists.  Today, my DNS servers listed
> in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced
> and lost.  I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail
> that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable
> domain or not.  How can I set this up?

You can tell sendmail not to try to resolve domains. just put this into your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl
and run sendmailconfig. Works for me...

Nils



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