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In article <DGKC8w.5IK@ashurst.demon.co.uk>,
	Jeff Ashurst <j@ashurst.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> I'm using sendmail.  Taking clues from all your comments, I've hunted through 
> all the logs and found mail status=Deferred for outgoing mail, with a 
> hostname lookup failure against post.demon.co.uk (Demon's mail host) - which 
> surprises me because the same host handles postings like this.  Local copies 
> of email addressed to myself are always delivered.

This is normal for a dial-up host, since without DNS access,
post.demon.co.uk cannot be resolved at submission time - it doesn't
matter.

When you connect to demon, do:

   /usr/lib/sendmail -q -v

and you should see messages being sent (or if not, the reason).
(sendmail might live somewhere else on Linux; I don't know.)

Also, you could look in your syslog file (/var/log/syslog on
Solaris, again might be somewhere else on Linux). This records
various sendmail logs.

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Andrew Gabriel                        Home: Andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk
Consultant Software Engineer          Work: Andrew.Gabriel@net-tel.co.uk