🚀 go-pugleaf

Simon Child <simon@child.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Now this evening I can't send mail, though I have changed nothing on this
> server for months.
> 
> First several mails stuck with message like
> 
> Nov 28 21:41:02 child sendmail[26693]: UAA25696:
> to=<john@hampson.demon.co.uk>,
> ctladdr=<simon@child.demon.co.uk> (500/500), delay=00:58:32,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=post.mail.demon.net, stat=Deferred:
> Illegal seek
> 
> I then set netscape to post direct to post.mail.demon.net without queuing
> through sendmail, pasted in copies of these mails and sent them that way.
> 
> Dejanews has only one reference to illegal seek, and that is in Spanish :-(
> and appears to be someone asking the question rather than receiving an
> answer.

Can only suggest looking at the code and seeing what generates it.



> After the reboot, messages are now stuck with a different message:
> 
> Nov 28 23:57:44 child sendmail[339]: UAA25696:
> to=<john@hampson.demon.co.uk>, ctladdr=<simon@child.demon.co.uk> (500/500),
> delay=03:15:14, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=post.mail.demon.net,
> stat=Deferred: Name server: post.mail.demon.net: host name lookup
> failure
> 
> But I can lookup post.mail.demon.net and ping it and telnet to port 25 on
> it.
> 
> I restarted named, restarted sendmail, no better.
> 
> Checked /etc/sendmail.cf, /etc/service.switch, no sign of corruption.
> 
> Edited /etc/resolv.conf to bypass named and go straight to demon
> nameservers, no better.
> 
> Next suggestion please!!
> 
> RedHat 5.1 server, sendmail 8.9.1, bind-4.9.7-1, absolutely nothing has been
> changed for months. So it must be some file corruption, I assume? Where
> shall I look?

service.switch? I thought the file was nsswitch.conf ... I can't check until
I go home this evening - I'm still waiting for my PC to be delivered
(and then
upgraded from Win98 to RH6.1 :-)

Paul