SUMMARY:Sendmail Conf query

Hi All

Thanks to all who replied . Special thanks to

	Crist Clark

the suggested solution worked for me. It was the DNS lookup problem....


Regards
Manish

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:48 AM
> To:	sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject:	Sendmail Conf query
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are running solaris 8. We have an internal DNS domain (eg Abc.com). There
is an another external DNS domain (Eg xyz.com). The mailserver exists on the
external domain(xyz.com) . There is a Firewall in between two domains. All the
internal domain solaris mail client ip-addresses are added on the Firewall for
sending the mail to mailserver existing on the external domain.
>
> The sendmail.cf file on the clients(internal) are updated with the entry
DS<Firewall address>. The entry of the Firewall is existing in the DNS server
for our internal DNS server.
>
> All the HP unix clients are working ok,and are able sending mails to the
mail server. But on Solaris clients while sending mail we get and error saying
:
>
>
> (host map: lookup (xyz.com): deferred)
>                                        manish@xyz.com
>
>
> We are using mailx command on Soalris clients for sending mails as following
:-
>
> # mailx -s <subject> manish@xyz.com
>
> mail message
>
> .
> EOT
>
> Users on the external domain uses OUTLOOK to read mails. Please suggest the
steps to overcome the problem . Fast response would be highly appreciated....
>
> Please suggest if any other configuration needs to be done on the Soalris
clients aprt from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file....
>
> Regards
>
> Manish
>


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