From: Bernd Schemmer (Bernd.Schemmer@gmx.de)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 06:32:09 EDT
Bernd Schemmer wrote:
Hi,
Looks like we need to compile our own sendmail daemon to disable the DNS
server usage or use another mail program like postfix.
Thanks to
Bertrand.Hutin
Alan Pe
The original question is below.
regards
Bernd
>We're trying to configure sendmail on a machine running Solaris 9 for
>sending mails via an "smart" relay host (DS... in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf)
>
>The problem we have is, that sendmail trys to resolve the domain names
>of the target email addresses, e.g. if we send an email to
>bs@mysubdomain.mydomain.de sendmail trys to "resolve"
>mysubdomain.mydomain.de . This fails because the nameserver used does
>not know this domain and because of this sendmail does not send the
>email to the relay.
>
>At least that is what the mail people in our company told us. They also
>told us that the "normal" sendmail daemon uses a file called
>/etc/mail/service.switch to configure the name resolution but that the
>use of this file is disabled in the sendmail daemon from Solaris 9.
>
>
>If we change the hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf to "hosts: files"
>instead of "hosts: files dns" everything works.
>
>How can we tell sendmail to change this behaviour (because we must have
>dns configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf)?
>
>Note that the connection to the mail relay and the DNS server are ok.
>
>regards
>
>Bernd
>
>
>
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