Thanks to all who replied
There was a problem with the Mail relay host
Changed to a diff mail relat host and mail works fine
Thanks
Relpies are at the bottom.
Orig question
I have a NIS server, which is also a Mail server in the NIS domain.
: The OS is SunOS 4.1.4
: Mail was workin fine till last week.
: The /etc/sendmail.cf is unchanged. The entry for Mail Relay Host in
the
: /etc/sendmail.cf is the Server1, which is the DNS server in the
network.
: The sendmail deamon is runnin as /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
: Incomoing mail to the NIS server is just fine.
: Now when I send mail from the NIS server, mail does not seem to go
out.
: They are stuck in the /var/spool/mqueue directory.
: I killed and restarted the sendmail deamon. No change there.
: When i do /usr/lib/sendmial -bp, I get the followin messagse,
:
: Mail Queue (22 requests)
: --QID-- -Size- ----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
: AA02289 586 Mon Aug 17 10:44 <chetan@sgsn01.nmg.sms.siemens.com>
: Deferred: Host sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu is down
:
: <sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu>
: AA02254 96 Mon Aug 17 10:34 <bozhilov@sgsn01.nmg.sms.siemens.com>
: Deferred: Host ce.mediaone.net is down
: <stefan.bozhilov@ce.mediaone.net>
: .......
:
:
: I know for sure that the remote site is not down and that it is up.
: What has happened, what do I do to solve this problem?
: Suggestions/help.
: Thanks , Will summarize.
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Replies were
What do you get when you do "/usr/lib/sendmail -v <email addr>" ? And do
you have problem deliver to other email address ?
-- Joel
(Opinions expressed here is just mine and no one else, not even my
employer.)
Continuus Software Corp.
joellee@continuus.com
http://www.continuus.com
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First thing I would try is sending mail using
/usr/lib/sendmail -v someoutsideuser@someoutsidehost
and watching the output, it should tell you where/how it is trying to
send
it. I suspect there is likely a problem at your relay, but give
sendmail
-v a try, and see what you get.
Good Luck,
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| William Hathaway email: wdh@poss.com |
| System/Network Administration phone: 800/851-1281 |
| Perfect Order Inc. pager: wdh-pager@poss.com|
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Have there been any DNS changes? Can you verify the remote host is ok by
pinging
it? Maybe there have been some routing changes at your ISP?
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David Blaine (blained@gdls.com)
Computer Systems Engineer
CSC for GDLS
Phone: 810-825-7650
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Can you run a /usr/lib/sendmail -v mailaddress and see what is the
output. it
should give some cluses to you. however if you wish you can send me this
output.
vikas
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Chetan Ramanna
Siemens Medical Systems
Off (847) 304 7383
E-Mail chetan@sgsn01.nmg.sms.siemens.com
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