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Hi I have tried putting the FQDN in both the etc/hosts and sendmail.cf file, i stopped and restarted sendmail and also typed newaliases, but when i send a mail it is still trying to connect to the ols.com relay server.
How can i check if relaying enabled on my server? i assume it is coz it is trying to relay to old.com.
Please advice.
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>Try to put the FQDN of the relay server in your local /etc/hosts file.
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>Example :
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>10.11.12.13 mailserver.domain.com
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>And then in your sendmail.cf file :
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>mailserver.domain.com
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>Restart the sendmail daemon and try again.
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>Is relaying enabled on your e-mail server ?
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>HTH
>Matthias
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>Sent: 27 May 2005 16:36
>To: Hoys (AT) mailrelaypi (DOT) smals-mvm.be; Hoys, Matthias (INF)
>Subject: [ibm-aix-l] RE: Urgent: Sendmail not working
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>Hi,
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>All the local mails are going through fine. Its only when i am sending
>external email i get this problem. I changed the smart relay in the
>sendmail.cf file to new.com, but for some reason it is still trying to
>send to old.com. I can't understand why. In my sendmail.cf file there is
>no mention what so ever of "old.com" not even in the comments, but still
>it is trying to send to old.comand since old.com does not exist any
>more, the mail is failing.
>
>Any suggestions as to what i am missing out here
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>>Try an ping polar.com from the sending server.
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>>Are you attempting to send mail to a central MTA prior to heading to=20
>>the internet, or is this just a local send.
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>>What wsa the line you removed the old.com from. Can you ping old.com?
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>>old.com or what ever your email server is need to be accessible.
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>>The good thing is you are heading in the right direction with doing=20
>>verbatim test.
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>>Walter
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Hi,
I have an old machine which send out mail if a filesystem gets full or
other such events. It suddenly stopped sending mails.
on checking the sendmail.cf file i saw that it was using an old mail
>server which was no longer in use (say old.com). i changed it to the
>current mail sever (say new.com). But i am still not able to get the
>mail to work.
after the above changes i did 'newaliases' and i stopped and restarted
the sendmail process.
here is the output of:
root@support>
sendmail -v testuser (AT) polar (DOT) com < /etc/motd
root setsender: uid/gid =3D 0/0
testuser (AT) polar (DOT) com Connecting to old.com.tcp
testuser (AT) polar (DOT) com Connecting to old.com (tcp)
testuser (AT) polar (DOT) com Host unknown
Saving message in //dead.letter
//dead.letter Can't create output
root@support>
I see that it is still trying to connect to old.com, why is this=20
happening? i have removed all entries of old.com form the sendmail.cf=20
file. Please advice why this is happening.

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