Re: Sendmail problem, "illegal seek" and "hostname lookup failure"

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From: Neil
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00

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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:57:31 +0000, Simon Child <simon@child.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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.

I had illegal seek yesterday when trying to get perl script running on my
machine, to send mail from web page.

Anyway, ion the HELO <domain name> transaction in SMTP you get an error 250
"illegal seek" if <domain name> is null or a load of bollocks.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Neil

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