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Article #2716Re: problems with DEC sendmail
From: Frederick M Avolio
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:54
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:54
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In article <1993Jan26.181829.5257@choreo.ca>, root@choreo.ca (Superuser) writes: |> Greetings: |> |> I am in the process of installing a DECstation 3100 for a user here, and we |> need to set up sendmail. I am a novice when it comes to this MTA, as I |> typically work with MMDF. |> |> At any rate, when this user sends mail out to our local net, it is returned |> from the MAILER-DAEMON with an error that it can't contact a machine called |> mail.tcplocal. |> |> The relay machine which Ultrix is trying to contact to route the mail is |> mail.Choreo.CA. How do I fix this? 1. It is trying to connect to host "mail" (which you set as your UUCP and Name relay -- DNmail and DZmail). 2. It is trying to connect to "mail" via mailer tcplocal. 3. It cannot connect to or resolve the name "mail". A quick fix might be to change "mail" to the FQN "mail.Choreo.CA" as you have for your general purpose relay (or change DZmail and DNmail to DZ$R and DN$R). F
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tis.com!avolio From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: problems with DEC sendmail Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:54:23 GMT Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k8oifINN729@sol.tis.com> References: <1993Jan26.181829.5257@choreo.ca> Reply-To: avolio@tis.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gildor.tis.com