SUMMARY: mail - Deferred: Error -1

From: Adametz, Bluejay <bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 15:03:33 -0400

And the winner is Sheila Hollenbaugh!

The problem is that the /etc/svc.conf file was configured with
hosts=local,bind when, in fact, we're only using local. This evidently
confused sendmail to the extent that it could only shrug it's shoulders
(Error -1). My only defense is that I inherited these systems, and this
isn't the only odd thing about them.

I appreciate all the responses, even the ones that didn't lead to a
solution. They all contribute to my learning more about this O/S.

---
Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P	bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com
Fuji Photo Film, Inc.		+1 864 223 2888 x1369
Greenwood, SC, USA
---
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does,
    I guess you do have a problem."
				 - Illusions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adametz, Bluejay [mailto:bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 14:07
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: UPDATE: mail - Deferred: Error -1
> 
> 
> There have been several suggestions on this problem (original message
> below):
> 
> Thomas Taylor suggested putting a fully-qualified name of the 
> mail server in
> the hosts file. This did not affect the problem, and anyway, 
> none of the
> systems that do work have qualified host names.
> 
> Thomas M. Payerle suggested that perhaps the load on the 
> machine was high
> enough to cause sendmail to defer. The load runs about 1.4, 
> which I would
> like to think wouldn't cause sendmail to back off.
> 
> Dr. Thomas Blinn opined that the problem might be with the 
> bigmail server. I
> was able to telnet to port 25 on bigmail and manually send a 
> message, so
> this would seem to be ruled out.
> 
> Ivan Hoe Jack suggested that the problem might be the lack of 
> DNS. All of
> the servers where mail DOES work are also running without 
> DNS, so that would
> seem to be ruled out.
> 
> I appreciate all the input so far, but I'm still looking for ideas...
> 
> 						- Bluejay Adametz
> 
> "It is belief and desire that determine all things."
> 					  - Thea Alexander, in 
> "2150 A.D."
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adametz, Bluejay [mailto:bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 09:58
> > To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> > Subject: mail - Deferred: Error -1
> > 
> > 
> > Here's the setup. I have about a dozen Tru64 4.0F systems. We 
> > do not use DNS
> > on these systems. I want them to be able to send mail to 
> our site mail
> > server.
> > 
> > On most of them, I've been successful by configuring mail as 
> > a server, and
> > forward nonlocal mail to our site server called, for the sake 
> > of argument,
> > bigmail. bigmail is appropriately defined in each system's 
> > hosts file and I
> > can ping it and connect to it manually.
> > 
> > I do get one error when sending with mailx -v:
> > 
> > 	WARNING: local host name (k5rqidb1) is not qualified; fix $j in
> > config file
> > 
> > but then it proceeds to send the mail anyway:
> > 
> > 	bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com... Connecting to bigmail via smtp...
> > 
> > On two of these systems, sending mail fails:
> > 
> > 	WARNING: local host name (K5MHSAP3) is not qualified; fix $j in
> > config file
> > 	bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com... Deferred: Error -1
> > 
> > the mail.log file collects messages like:
> > 
> > Apr  3 09:56:47 K5MHSAP3 sendmail[24037]: JAA0000005861:
> > to=bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com, ctladdr=bluejay (226/0), 
> delay=00:25:28,
> > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, relay=bigmail, stat=Deferred: Error -1
> > 
> > I've compared sendmail.cf files between systems that work and 
> > systems that
> > don't, and the only difference is the hostname.
> > 
> > Any ideas on where to look next? Is there a sendmail expert 
> > in the house?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > ---
> > Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P	bluejay_at_fujigreenwood.com
> > Fuji Photo Film, Inc.		+1 864 223 2888 x1369
> > Greenwood, SC, USA
> > ---
> > "A human being should be all human. He should have habits and
> > possessions  peculiarly his own, he should not try to look like
> > or behave like anybody  but himself, and he should not be half
> > robot." 
> > 					  - Larry Niven
> > 					    "The Long Arm of 
> > Gil Hamilton"
> > 
> 

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