From: Darren Brechman-Toussaint (Darren.Toussaint@securitymail.com.au)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 19:13:34 EST
Hi,
I have a strange sendmail problem. I have created a sendmail.cf (called client.cf) file that its
only job is to always have the from header set to a particular user and always relay all mail to a
machine called 'mailgw', this is the .mc file that I used to create the cf file. This file is being
saved as /etc/mail/client.cf and sendmail is being called as follows '/usr/lib/sendmail -t -f
edp@bne.secmail.com.au -C/etc/mail/client.cf -oQ/tmp' and is being run by an ordinary user.
OSTYPE(`solaris8')dnl
FEATURE(`nullclient', `mailgw')
MASQUERADE_AS(`bne.secmail.com.au')
deffine(`confFROM_HEADER', `Security Mailing Services <edp@bne.secmail.com.au>')
Now the strange part is, this config file is being used to send email's succesfully to many
different addresses some internal to this company and some external. When I try to send an email to
a particular addresses say 'fred@nowhere.com' these messages are always queued and mailq returns
this status for the messages.
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
gBHNsPc26152 48 Wed Dec 18 09:54 edp@bne.secmail.com.au
(host map: lookup (nowhere.com): deferred)
fred@nowhere.com
This is happening even if I have multiple 'To' addresses, the other addresses get delivered without
being queued. There is a sendmail process that processes this queue every 30 mins and some nights it
can take 7 hours or more until these email's are finally delivered. The emails are sent each night
at 22:00, and the last three nights have been very random with regards to the actual delivery time.
email's queued Tue 17th @ 22:01, delivered Wed 18th @ 7:49
email's queued Mon 16th @ 22:00, delivered Mon 16th @ 22:19
email's queued Fri 13th @ 22:00, delivered Sat 14th @ 14:19
Sendmail version 8.11.6+Sun, Solaris 8, Used 'Makefile' in /usr/lib/mail/cf to convert .mc file to
.cf file and copied to /etc/mail.
I am hoping that someone can give me some ideas on what/where I should be looking for this, any
hints would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Darren Brechman-Toussaint
Security Mailing Services
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