Re: sendmail queues mail when not using dns

["Rick von Richter" <rickv@xxxxxxx>]

Make sure you have a mail relay host set up.  If you have a central mail 
server then all of your clients should send their queued mail directly 
to the main mail relay and not even bother with MX lookups.

Marvin Blackburn wrote:

> We have a system that must use /etc/hosts for name resolution.
> When we set it up, mail queues and does not get sent.
>
> In addition, neither nslookup nor dig return any valid information.
> (nslookup works in  hpux in this situation).
>
> nsswitch.conf is looking only to files for host entry.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> ------------------
> Marvin Blackburn
> Systems Administrator
> Glen Raven
> "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
>
>
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